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Money, glory and friendship are trying bedfellows. Money and glory are always heavily involved in transoceanic airplane flights. Few observers were greatly surprised last week to learn that the friendship of Hugh Herndon Jr. and Clyde Pangborn, like that of many another flying team, was no more...
Pilot Pangborn revealed the break. He said that more than a year before they took off on their round-the-world flight he and Socialite Herndon made a "gentleman's agreement" to divide all proceeds equally. Shortly before the flight, he declared, Herndon insisted on a 75-25 contract forbidding Pangborn to lecture or write for publication about the flight without Herndon's permission. Pangborn did not then withdraw "because all my friends would have thought I was yellow...
...Like Herndon & Pangborn, who ran -afoul of the Japanese authorities for flying over forbidden ground, Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler was arrested last week by local officials at Fortaleza, Brazil because he showed no authorization to fly over Brazilian territory and had "not sufficient proof of his identity." Pilot Hink-.ler's excuse was the same as the Pacific flyers': that an advance telegram of introduction, requesting courtesy of state air fields, was not delivered. Forgiven and forgiving, Flyers Herndon & Pangborn went last week to the Japanese Consulate in Manhattan and received the White Medal of Merit...
...thing to land a plane on its belly because you have deliberately dropped your landing gear, as did Herndon & Pangborn when they flew the Pacific. It is another and highly disconcerting thing to discover unexpectedly that you must land like that when your Big Boss is your passenger. Last week Lieut. Elwood Quesada (of the Army's original Question Mark endurance team) had that experience over Long Island. His passenger, Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, wanted to land at North Beach to keep a Manhattan engagement. Over the airport Lieut. Quesada pushed the pumphandle that...
Birthdays. Paul von Hindenburg, 84; William Wrigley Jr., 70; Oscar (Waldorf; Tschirky, 65; Mahatma Gandhi, 62; Charles (''Gabby") Street, 49; Hugh Herndon...