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...dropped en route, ordinary wheels serving for the Paris landing.) As fuel is used up, one motor will be cut out, then another, leaving two reserve motors for the end of the flight. The average speed will be 110 m.p.h.; estimated flying time, New York-to-Paris, 35 hrs. All the past week, U. S. weather men have been mapping Atlantic air-currents for Captain Fonck's benefit. Trans-Atlantic steamers have flashed weather reports. Steamships are supplied with cards bearing silhouettes of the S-35 to aid in recognition, and instructions for reporting, having sighted...
They shook hands with Explorer Vilhjálmur Stefansson, who pressed a stopwatch as he burst into congratulations to the two for having circled the globe in 28 days, 14 hrs., 36 min., 5 sec.-a week or so faster than a circummundane trip made by Newspaperman John Henry Mears in 1913. Mears had spent only $836 en route. The new champions-Millionaire Edward S. Evans of Detroit and Newspaperman Linton O. Wells of Manhattan-had spent about $25,000 to go 20,100 mi. in crack steamers, tearing trains, rocketing automobiles, whizzing airplanes. Said Millionaire Evans...
...airline non-stop flight was made in May, 1923, from Mineola, N. Y., to San Diego, Calif., 2,520 miles in 26 hrs., 50 min., by Lieuts. John A. Macready and Oakley Kelly...
...dawn of a morning last week, 17-year-old Gertrude Ederle took to the water off Battery Park, Manhattan, swam for approximately 21 miles (in 17 hrs. 11 min. 30 sec.) until she encountered land at Sandy Hook...
Last week, through the bodiless air, a man with wings but without a motor glided for 9 hrs. 4 min.-a record. The man was Lieut. Thoret. Eighteen months ago he astonished the aero world with a glide of seven hours at Biskra...