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...Manhattan where he had been going under the name of "Mr. Smith." He had a new plane, a Wasp-powered Bellanca, and extraordinary plans. Single-handed he would fly from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. to "some point in Asia," breaking by 1,000 mi. the 5,126 mi. non-stop distance record held by Great Britain. Shrewdly, he timed his flight to steal some of the thunder of Italo Balbo's squadron flight to the U. S. next month. He got big headlines by describing his unusual preparations for the ordeal of flying solo two days...
...Hearst Land next December they expected to see an airplane fly over their heads. The plane would be making a non-stop flight from Ross Sea to Weddell Sea and return. In it would be three famed flying explorers-Lincoln Ellsworth, Bernt Balchen and Sir George Hubert Wilkins, who discovered Hearst Land...
...third day the flyers picked up the coastline, had only to follow it as far as they could: Fuel ran low, so they landed at Walfish ("Whalefish") Bay, 770 mi., short of Cape Town. Total distance: 5,340 mi., a non-stop distance record. Flying time...
...propose to fly non-stop (with a good pilot) to Cape Town. When over Victoria Falls my three darling babies, Homer, Luther and Sundae, will each make a parachute jump in honor of Queen Victoria, Dr. Livingstone and ex-Mayor James ('Washington') Walker, respectively...
Jesus Carranza, 24, son of Mexico's onetime (1917-20) President Venustiano Carranza, took his first flying lesson at Valley Stream, L. I. Four years ago his cousin, Capt. Emilio Carranza, "Lindbergh of Mexico," died attempting a non-stop flight from Manhattan to Mexico...