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...have been conducted under the supervision of the late Commander John Rodgers, hero of the Navy flight last year (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925), in a PN9 from California to Hawaii. After Commander Rodgers' ironic death (TIME, Sept. 6), the leadership had passed to Flight Commander Harold T. Bartlett, son of a Connecticut schoolmaster, seconded by Lieut. Byron J. Connell, son of a Monongahela River lockmaster. With these two in the planes numbered for convenience 1 and 2, flew five others, including veterans of the transatlantic flight of the NC-4, the Hawaiian flight and René Fonck...
...Roads. Both planes had functioned perfectly when, loaded to weigh ten tons each, they set off (though No. 1, with Lieutenant Connell at the controls, had some difficulty rising). All night the flyers' radio reports told of perfect control and conditions-until dawn, when, cutting across Cuba, Commander Bartlett was obliged to report that his ample oil supply was unaccountably being exhausted. The motors were evidently "oil hogs." He descended at dawn at Nueva Gerona on the Isle of Pines, the non-stop flight half frustrated...
Lieutenant Connell flew on in plane No. 1, but his reports soon paralleled Commander Bartlett's. His starboard engine was heating up, under a furious oil pressure. Then his reports ceased. The Caribbean was silent save for Commander Bartlett's dots and dashes requesting that some Navy ship bring more...
...University will send three representatives to the Congress in addition to Mr. Fox. These men are M. A. Check Jr. '26 H. W. Foote '27, and H. C. Bartlett '28. Foote will be on the Execnntive Committee of the Federation while Cheek will be in charge of the subcommittee to consider the value of athletic activities...
...York, N. Y. Capt. Bartlett wrote...