Word: maughan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dayton, Ohio. At 7:05 A. M. Eastern standard time Maughan landed for repairs to a gasoline pipe. At 8:15 he "took...
...three o'clock on a dark June morning at Mitchell Field, U. S. Army's aerodrome at Mineola, L. I., Lieutenant Russell L. Maughan was awakened and informed by the meteorologist that he could attempt his dawn to dusk flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific...
Lieutenant Maughan got up, dressed, went to the mess, called for scrambled eggs, bacon and toast, wandered about nibbling a cantaloupe...
After breakfast he was driven to the sheds. Mechanics were busy wheeling the twelve-cylinder Girtiss aeroplane out of its hangar. The engine was tested; it ran perfectly. Maughan donned his parachute, climbed into the machine. A few seconds later he signalled to the mechanics to pull away the chocks, he opened the throttle, the engine roared, the 200 early-rising spectators screamed a parting welcome. The aeroplane ran along the ground for a short distance and then soared majestically heavenward as dawn began to dispel the gloom...
...days later, on March 26, at Dayton, Ohio, Lieut. R. L. Maughan established a new world's speed record of 233.87 miles an hour, exceeding the former record made by the French flyer, Sadi Lecointe, by 86 miles an hour...