Word: macrobertson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason for Jim's flight was to "ferry" to England a special racer in which he hoped to enter the Johannesburg Air Race. A low-wing Bellanca with a Wasp Jr. engine, the plane was built as Colonel James Fitzmaurice's entry in the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race to Australia, was disqualified on technicalities. Changes made for Captain Mollison delayed his departure from the U. S. until after the Johannesburg Race came to its sorry conclusion. He decided to fly across anyway to see if he could beat the time of the Johannesburg Race's winner...
...Transcontinental & Western Air Inc., the DC2 revolutionized air transport the world over. A 14-passenger, all-metal monoplane with a cruising speed of 185 m.p.h., it outmoded practically all former equipment, became standard on most major U. S. airlines. When a DC2 took second place in the 1934 MacRobertson air race from England to Australia, was beaten only by a special racer, Europe too "went Douglas." By last week, the booming Douglas plant at Santa Monica had delivered not only 81 DC-2's in the U. S. at $80,000 apiece, but 49 in Holland, Java, Batavia, Austria...
Married. Tom Campbell Black, co-winner of the MacRobertson Trophy, England-to-Australia air race last autumn (TIME, Oct. 29); and Florence Desmond. British actress, mimic ("The Hollywood Party"); in London...
...trip, settled down to a job as commercial pilot in Australia, got his face permanently scarred when he dashed into a burning plane to save a passenger after a crash. Last autumn tall, rangy Lieut. Scott came to world fame when he flew to Australia once more, won the MacRobertson Trophy Race and ?20,000. Last week in Paris he was given what everybody expected: the Harmon Trophy as No. 1 airman...
...Wesley Smith and Jacqueline Cochran, sole U. S. woman entry. They quit at Bucharest. First plane into Athens was the Douglas D. C.2 flown by Pilots J. J. Moll and Koene D. Parmentier of Royal Dutch Airlines. Their longtime service on the Amsterdam-Batavia airway (three-fourths of the MacRobertson route) gave them a decided edge over other contestants...