Word: gehlbach
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Derby. Pilot Lee Gehlbach, whose low-wing Command-Aire set the pace throughout most of the All-American Air Derby (TIME, Aug. 4) finished an easy winner at Detroit last week, took the $15,000 first prize. His elapsed time for the 5,541-mi. flight around the continent: 43 hr. 35 min. 30 sec. Lowell Bayless, flying a Gee-Bee biplane, came second, four hours slower; Charles Meyers in a Great Lakes, third. Eight of the original 18 starters were forced to abandon the race...
...original 18 starters in the All-American Air Derby for planes powered by 100-h. p. American Cirrus engines, finished at Los Angeles the first half of a 7,000-mi. round-the-continent race, headed east to complete the circle in Detroit. In the lead was Lee Gehlbach of Little Rock, Ark. flying a low-wing Command-Aire...