Word: hrs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week's plane were four men: Capt. Charles F. Kingsford-Smith, commander, organizer; Capt. Charles T. P. Ulm, copilot; Capt. Harry W. Lyon, navigator ; James Warner, radio operator. They made the 2,400-mile hop from Oakland Airport, Calif., to Wheeler Field, Honolulu, in 27 hrs., 28 min.-having no trouble except that they thought they were going to run out of gasoline. Their plane, called the Southern Cross, is a Fokker monoplane equipped with three Wright Whirlwind motors...
Pierre Fronval looped 1,111 consecutive, uninterrupted loops, in 4 hrs. 56 min. at Velizy airdrome outside Paris. Each loop was followed by an official hammer blow delivered by an Aero Club representative upon a wooden table. A French notary legalized the record by stamping the Republic's seal upon the table. When the U. S. record of 1,093 loops in six hours was passed the crowd cheered as Frenchmen cheer champions. A Hispano-Suiza motor, the make used by Costes and Lebrix, and a Morane plane endured the strain...
...Africa and it will not be amiss to keep tab on English dailies and weeklies till the end of the present month. The name of the runner is Arthur F. Newton, who last July shattered the world's record for 100 miles by covering that distance in 14 hrs. and 43 minutes. . . . Newton was educated at Bedford and left England 21 years ago to farm in Rhodesia, South Africa when only a youth. He had passed his 44th year when he made mince meat of the world's 100 mile record...
Near Woodruff, S. C., workmen with picks, shovels and dynamite worked day and night in shifts, for 110 hours (four days, 14 hrs.), to cut through the roof of a creekside cave on the farm of one Jonas W. Swink. Mournful howls, deep in the earth, spurred their efforts. Crowds gathered. On the fourth day, they dug out the body of a large red fox bearing gashes of a fatal battle. They hung the fox on a tree. Before dawn of the fifth day, which chanced to be the second anniversary of the exhumation of Miner Floyd Collins who died...
...George Young, 17-year-old Canadian, and huge Norman Ross of Chicago-still faced the mainland. Between 3 and 4 miles from shore Swimmer Ross sighed finis and groped for the gunwale of his boat. That left George Young alone, and he succeeded. After 15 hrs., 44 min., 33 sec., he reached Point Vinvente, Calif., losing 25 Ibs. in this $25,000 venture...