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Blown far off his course by crosswinds, forced to fly blind the whole way through fog and snow, Pilot Doolittle averaged 217 m.p.h., reached New York from Los Angeles (2,600 mi.) in 11 hr. 59 min., just in time to beat the transport record by four minutes. Said modest Flyer Doolittle: "I guess it was just a case of poor piloting. . . . The old man is slipping...
...make publicity. Last week he started out on what was to be a dawn-to-dusk round-trip flight from New Orleans to New York, inaugurating Eastern Air Lines' 9-hour service between the two cities. The Rickenbacker plane zipped from New Orleans to New York (1,301 mi.) in 7 hr. 8 min., on the return trip got stuck in Washington with a cracked oil tank. Among its passengers was Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, who smiled patiently when a photographer called her Mrs. Roosevelt...
Wearing his lion-skin coat, Roscoe Turner took off from Miami for New York (1,200 mi.) last week, ostensibly to break Rickenbacker's transport record of 8 hr. 36 min. With him in the United Air Lines' Boeing in which he placed third in the England-Australia air race last autumn was United's Traffic Manager Harold Crary. An hour after Turner's departure a regular Eastern Air Liner took off from Miami with twelve passengers. Pilot Dick Merrill refueled at Charleston, picked up a tailwind at Richmond, scooted into Newark at 227 m.p.h...
...oldtime mail pilot is TWA's youngish Harry C. ("Skippy") Taylor. His was the fastest transport flight of the week. With 14 passengers in a TWA Douglas he rode a 60-mi. tailwind from Chicago to Newark (743 mi.) in 2 hr. 54 min., averaged better than four miles a minute...
...vibrates 2,400 times per second-faster than a humming bird's wings. The reflected beam sends the lights & shadows of the picture through the shutter to a conventional photo-electric cell ("electric eye")- There the image is translated into electric impulses which flash over the wires-10.000 mi., if desired-to the receiving machine. The receiver reverses the process, registering the image on a sensitized film, which is then developed and printed like any ordinary picture...