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...Answer, after only one practice flight. They unexpectedly ran out of gas after 10 hrs., tried to land through a mist, crashed. Ashcraft was killed, Miss Gentry badly hurt. Her first and continuous cries after the smash were for "Bill." "Bill" was William Ulbrich, at whose mother's Mineola home she lived. He, at the time, was just overhead flying for the record with Pilot & Mrs. Martin Jensen in their Bellanca Three Musketeers. While Miss Gentry lay in the hospital and Pilot Ashcraft was at an undertaker's, the Three Musketeers flew on, on; stayed up 70½ hrs., when their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Curtiss-Wright Roc | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...April 14, 1927, the Curtiss Flying Service Inc. broke its record of faultless performance. Pilot John Parke Andrews, Passengers Mary Seaman and Carl C. Stoll Jr., were killed in an accident at Mineola, L. I. Last week, Carl C. Stoll ST., of Louisville, Ky., filed suit for negligence against the Curtiss Flying Service, Inc., the first legal action of its kind in the history of New York courts. At the same time, Illinois courts were concerned with a novel phase of flying. Mrs. Gertrude B. Weingarten, mother of 6-year-old R. Paul Weingarten Jr., asked Justice Adolph Joseph Sabath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights, Flyers: Jul. 16, 1928 | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...past month he has been cruising in the Mediterranean aboard his yacht Corsair. Three days after he landed Mr. Morgan momentously fulfilled a duty which he has often promised to perform but which had heretofore escaped him. He began to serve on the Nassau County Grand Jury at Mineola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Paris to Persia | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

Divorced. Frank Tinney, famed comedian, by an interlocutory decree granting $200 a week alimony and the custody of his son to Edna Davenport Tinney; at Mineola, L. I. Said she: "I may remarry Frank." Meanwhile they plan to tour the country together as a vaudeville team. Uncharitable persons allege that the divorce will create a favorable reaction at the boxoffice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 7, 1925 | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

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