Word: hrs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miles. Up and down he frisked to study its prevalent direction. It blew steadily from the west. Visionary. Apollo Soucek foresaw the day of multi-motored transports roaring out of the west at these heights, driven by this raging gale, across the continent in half the standard 30 hrs. now needed...
...Long Island and Plymouth. The 375 miles is an easy jump for any plane. Hence the project presages safe and convenient airplane passage across the ocean, direct competition with both sea ships and air ships. Flying time between the continents, Mr. Armstrong calculates, will be as low as 20 hrs...
Solo Endurance. Vern Speich, Santa Ana, Calif., automobile salesman, kept his plane up 38 hrs., 48 sec. at Long Beach, Calif., last week, thus breaking the non-refueling solo endurance record (36 hrs., 56 min., 36 sec.) of Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy...
...investigators) or got lost. Thirteen ended the race, Ruth Nichols cracking up only 130 miles from the Cleveland airport. The Department of Commerce tried to evict Miss Rasche en route because her license had expired. She continued. Winner was Mrs. Thaden, with a Travel Air in 20½ hrs. flying time. Winner in the light plane division was Mrs. Omlie, with a Monocoupeaon in 25 hrs...
...Graf Zeppelin, stately in the Pacific sky, traveled last week from Tokyo to Los Angeles, 6,118 mi. in 75½ hrs. Celebration banquets and drinks at Tokyo gave Commander Hugo Eckener indigestion all the way over the sea. Because storms were ahead of them, most of the 60 passengers revised their wills. The dirigible rode out the storms comfortably. She tried to pass over Seattle. But winds made that excursion impracticable. To San Francisco she went directly, sidling through the Golden Gate on a cross wind near sunset; then to Los Angeles where she hovered until dawn. The remaining...