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...weather last month in an attempt to fly from Seattle to Tokyo by refuelling from a "nurse" plane (TIME, July 20), got away to a second start. Pilots Reginald L. Robbins & Harry S. Jones took fuel over Fairbanks, lost their nurse plane in a fog half way to Nome, turned back to land at Fairbanks...
...Japan have stayed uncollected after four tries in two years, chiefly because of the staggering fuel load needed for the 5,000-mi. route. Last week the fifth serious Tokyo trial got away from Seattle to a fair start, floundered near the halfway mark, ended at Nome...
...Boeing Field before dawn, kept rendezvous with her trimotored Ford refuel plane over Fairbanks that evening only 30 min. behind time. Throttled down to comparatively slow speeds the planes flew together while the Fort Worth drained 200 gal. from her nurse above. Then both flew on to Nome, made contact again in a brisk wind. A load of 435 gal. was needed to complete the flight. After taking 300 gal. the Fort Worth became unmanageable in the wind. Robbins & Jones could not hold her steady enough to complete the transfer. Finally they gave up, landed at Nome, announced they would...
...Roosevelt Field dust into the sunset one evening last week, they ended a story already read and reread by every newsreader in the land. Any urchin in the crowd of 10,000 that milled about the field could have told how the plane had left Solomon Beach near Nome two days before on the last laps of its round-the-world flight (TiME, July 6); how Navigator Harold Gatty had miraculously escaped serious injury when the propeller kicked him; how one-eyed Pilot Wiley Post had whipped the plane off a concrete avenue and out of Edmonton, Canada, that morning...
...with a U. S.-made tractor pulled the plane out. At Khabarovsk Post and Gatty deliberately sacrificed another 26 hours of their ahead-of-schedule time by giving their plane a minute overhaul, and taking 12 hours' sleep in preparation for the hazardous 2,100 mi. dash to Nome. They took off in the face of doubtful weather over the Gulf of Tartary. the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Bering Sea. This is the season of the 24-hour Arctic day. They reached Alaska without mishap, went on. The Winnie Mae stood in good chance of completing her course...