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...Fort Worth, driven back by weather last month in an attempt to fly from Seattle to Tokyo by refuelling from a "nurse" plane (TIME, July 20), got away to a second start. Pilots Reginald L. Robbins & Harry S. Jones took fuel over Fairbanks, lost their nurse plane in a fog half way to Nome, turned back to land at Fairbanks...
...Victorian]; an age of barbarism and prudery, of nobility and cheapness, of satisfaction and desperation; an age in which everything was discovered and nothing known; an age in which all the outlines were tremendous and all the details sordid; when gas-jets struggled feebly through the circumambient fog, when the hour of dinner might be at any moment between two and six, when the doses of rhubarb were periodic and gigantic, when pet dogs threw themselves out of upper storey windows, when cooks reeled drunk in areas, when one sat for hours with one's feet in dirty straw...
They scarcely saw the ocean during the 16-hour crossing. It was as predicted, a struggle with fog, rain & low clouds the whole way. But Navigator Magyar caught many radio bearings; the monoplane, another Lockheed, hit the coast of France only a trifle off course. They had estimated 26 hours flight to Budapest with two hours fuel to spare. But headwinds over Europe upset that. Just 25 miles short of the goal, at 12 minutes past the 26th hour, the Wasp motor gasped for gas. Endres landed the plane in a rough field, damaging the undercarriage and propeller. Thence another...
...sails tightly furled. Her crew of 60 was too small to handle her under her own canvas (Captain Isaac Hull had 450 men when he beat the Guerrière). Her first port was Portsmouth, N. H. but at Gloucester she had to be towed in because of fog...
...Liberty's first destination was Copenhagen, thence to Mr. Hillig's Steinbrucken. But the weather, none too good during the Winnie Mae's crossing, had improved not at all in the next 13 hours. Expanses of fog were relieved only by rain; cloud banks were broken only by a northeast gale. For 17 hours the flyers saw no water. Early in the morning Pilot Hoiriis spiralled the plane down through a rift in the clouds-and there was land! It must be England, dead on the path of Copenhagen. Any moment they expected to sight the English...