Word: cramer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parker Dresser Cramer, who twice vainly tried to fly from Illinois over Canada, Greenland and Iceland to Europe (TIME, July 15) was with Explorer Wilkins and Flyer S. Alward Cheesman on Deception Island last week, preparing to attempt a South Pole flight. *Rendered possible by 80 pages of intricate computations and figures of George Washington Littlehales, 69, government hydrographic engineer, comfortably located in Washington. The Littlehales tables are to the avigator what Bowditch's tables are to the navigator. They aided Commander Byrd's North Polar flight...
Haig Gregory Abdian of Arlington; Benjamin Alexander of Dorchester; Edward Park Anderson of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Lyman Henry Butter-field of Rochester, New York; Lester Cramer of Worcester; Emile Mack Despres of New York City; John Charles de Wilde of Shiloh, New Jersey; Joseph Leo Doob of New York City; Jeronie David Frank of New York City; Hirsch Jacob Freed of Brooklyn, New York; Abraham Grossman of Beverly; Ray Hardin of Cincinnati Ohio; Albert Gailord Hart II of White Plains, New York; Beaumont Alexander Herman of Somerville; Leo Tolstol Hurwitz, of Brooklyn. New York; Richard Whitney of Hartford, Connecticut...
...from Simonstown, South Africa. Waiting for him since last year at Deception Island is the airplane which he and Carl Ben Eielson flew over Graham Land (TIME, Dec. 31, 1928). Pilot Eielson now is in Alaska developing an aviation line for the Aviation Corp. With Sir Hubert are Parker Cramer, who this summer made a second unsuccessful try to fly from Illinois to Europe by way of the Arctic Ocean (TIME, July 15). Also along as a flyer is S. Alward Cheesman, Canadian pilot. They will attempt to fly the 2,000 miles from Deception Island to Little America, exploring...
...Parker W. Cramer, Robert...
...Cramer, Gast and Wood, none of whom could navigate a ship except by dead reckoning, thus set off in the 'Untin' Bowler last week. They landed at Great Whale on Hudson Bay, were held there two days because of bad weather. Next stop was to be Port Burwell, Cape Chidley, Labrador. The silence that ensued left followers of the flight more serious things to ponder than the origin of the name 'Untin' Bowler...