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Early one morning last week in her native Brooklyn Miss Ingalls' new Wasp-powered Lockheed Orion Auto da Fe (Act of Faith) was trundled out of a hangar for a non-stop flight to California. Standing beside the gleaming black-&-silver monoplane, Miss Ingalls' dander rose when a bystander said something about a possible funeral. ''You be quiet!" she snapped, blue eyes blazing. Tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) Miss Ingalls next became angry over an airport ruling that she had to use an unfamiliar runway. Finally she took off, headed west, reached Burbank...
...flights go, it did not amount to much. Miss Ingalls could have made better time, at considerably less expense and energy, by taking one of the regular transcontinental airliners. Nevertheless it was the first East-West non-stop coast-to-coast flight by a woman. Laura Ingalls left the stage to become a flyer in the wake of the Lindbergh boom. She had been by turns a vaudeville actress, Spanish dancer, graduate nurse, amateur detective. At Curtiss Field her small, helpless appearance at first evoked laughter. Later she was told she would never make a flyer. Indomitable, she kept...
...Midway Island, a late copy of TIME was handed to Mr. Perry. He declined to read it because he would not break into his regular order of reading TIME. Incidentally, that particular copy of TIME went back to Pearl Harbor in one of the seaplanes that made the first non-stop flight over this lonely section of the Pacific Ocean...
...April 1928, the German plane Bremen made the first non-stop westbound flight across the Atlantic, was forced down on remote Greenly Island at the mouth of the frozen St. Lawrence River. Avid for news, the New York World sent Flyers Floyd Bennett, who was half-sick, and Bernt Balchen flying to Greenly Island. They landed at Lake Ste. Agnes near Murray Bay, where Bennett could go no farther. A plane returned him to a hospital in Quebec where he developed a fulminating case of pneumonia. Pneumonia serum available at the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan might save Floyd Bennett...
That afternoon in Washington, Senators wept openly and a Congressional recess was declared. Same day Manhattan newspapers carried display advertising of a "new, faster Sky Chief," pictures of another TWAirliner which last week flew from Los Angeles to New York non-stop in 11 hr. 5 min., broke the transcontinental transport record by half an hour. First Douglas to crack up in the U. S., Sky Chief's misfortune seemed clearly due to weather, not construction...