Word: barographs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record, after failing to do so on two consecutive days. The first day he flashed back & forth four times over the 3-kilo-metre course he was clocked at an average of 293 m.p.h. Then it was discovered that someone had neglected to install in his plane a barograph, necessary for official recognition of his flight. Next day he had the barograph but a quartering wind slowed him to 282 m.p,h.?.77 less than the necessary margin over the old record. On that day spectators feared he was about to crash into treetops at the north...
...Taking off from East Hill, O'Meara flew 38 mi. to Endicott, N. Y., breaking the U. S. distance record of 10.9 mi. made last year by famed Hawley Bowlus (who last week was absent, recuperating from an attempted suicide at his California home). He also thought his barograph would show a new U. S. altitude mark of 5,000 ft. or more. Pilot Schempp sailed from the same starting point 65 mi. to New Milford, Pa.; but because he is a German citizen he may not be credited with a U. S. record...
...nosed over. Rescuers rushed up to find the girl unhurt, walking about, crying hysterically. Such was the end of her attempt to regain the women's altitude record from Ruth Nichols, who soared to 28,743 ft. a few weeks ago (TIME, March 16). But calibration of her barograph may yet prove that Elinor Smith flew highest...
...Barograph, No Record. From the sheer cliffs bordering Point Loma, Calif, last week youthful Glider-Pilot Jack Barstow in a Bowlus sailplane was launched over the Pacific's edge. All that day and most of that night he soared over land and water, sometimes in cold wind and rain, conversing occasionally through the darkness with his friends below. When he landed, at the end of 15 hr. 13 min. he had shattered every existing endurance record for gliding* and yet, officially, had made no flight. Reason: he had taken along no barograph to register in ink, on a clock...