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...plunked down $500 for the privilege of making the first trip on the first regular air-service across the North Atlantic. With free baggage weight limited to a meagre 40 lb., they waited eagerly to board the Hindenburg, Germany's newest and largest dirigible, scheduled for a threeday, non-stop voyage to Lakehurst...
...weight, four motors. Able to seat 40 passengers or sleep 20, it will have a top speed of 230 m.p.h., a cruising speed of 210 at 75% horsepower, will be able to fly coast-to-coast with two stops in 13 hours, from New York to New Orleans non-stop in less than five. For safety, it will be able to take off on three engines, fly on two. Inside, it will be as luxurious as the China Clipper, which is not quite so big. The passenger cabin will be 40 ft. long, 10 ft. wide, with a double...
...most women pilots, the prime ambition of testy little Laura Ingalls is to outdo the famed exploits of tousle-headed Amelia Earhart Putnam. Since last April Miss Ingalls, trying extra hard, has concentrated on the long-standing Earhart non-stop record across the U. S. from West to East. Her first attempt fizzled in Colorado, her next in Indiana. Disgruntled, she tried her hand at non-stop flying from East to West, was the first woman to succeed at it (TIME, July 22). Last week, she was again ready to tackle the West-East flight...
...Angeles dawn, she climbed into her black & silver Lockheed Orion, lumbered into the air, sped to New York in 13 hr., 34 min., 5 sec. Mrs. Putnam's non-stop record, made in 1932, went down by 5 hr., 29 min. Miss Ingalls probably would have beaten the men's non-stop record of 13 hr., 27 min.† if her radio compass had not broken down near Columbus...
...hours air time, the Department of Commerce gave him a physical waiver and a license. In 1930 Oilman Hall bought a new Lockheed Vega also called Winnie Mae. In that ship Post quickly got national attention by winning the 1930 Bendix Trophy Race, scooting from Los Angeles to Chicago non-stop in 9 hr. 9 min. With laconic Australian Harold Gatty as navigator, Wiley Post made his first round-the-world flight in 1931 in 8 days 15 hr. 51 min. Two years later, embittered over his failure to get rich, he took off on his second round-the-world...