Word: bowlus
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...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...
...Official world record, 14 hr. 25 min. by Ferdinand Schulz, Germany, 1928; official U. S. record, 9 hr. 5 min. 32 sec., Hawley Bowlus, Point Loma, March, 1930; previous unofficial world record, 14 hr. 45 min., Lieut. Dinort, Germany...
After weeks of practice and preparations, which, in passing, provided glider licenses for both Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, the combined Lindbergh and William Hawley Bowlus forces brought forth a record last week. At San Diego, Bowlus, in his slender, wide-winged, motorless plane soared into the wee hours of the morning for 9 hr. 5 min. He failed to break the German world's record of better than 14 hr., but established a new U. S. mark. Later he helped his famous friend into a brand new glider, saw him take off at La Jolla, watched...