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Last week a report leaked out regarding a monumental project: A non-stop around-the-world flight to be accomplished by refueling in the air. The flight is planned to start from New York next September. Capt. Henry W. Lyon Jr. (navigator of the Southern Cross) as navigator, Reserve Lieut. Albert D. Hulse as engineer, with others as yet unnamed, are to be the crew. A plane powered with five 420-h. p. Pratt & Whitney motors, with a cruising speed of 120 m. p. h. is to be the vehicle. Twenty-two refueling stations, including ten for emergency only...
...outriggers from the wings. Out of the Bellanca secrecy has issued this rumor: The plane is being built for Shirley J. Short, oldtime air mail pilot, 1926 Harmon Trophyist. Backed by the Chicago Daily News, he will try for a standing prize of $25,000 for the first non-stop flight from Seattle to Tokyo...
...Sikorsky biplane, Ville de Paris, built in 1927 for Captain Rene Fonck's intended flight to Paris and lately bought by American International Airways, would, it was promised, undertake a flight from some U. S. airport to Santiago, Chile. Objects: the world's non-stop flight record, Pan-American friendship...
...eaten up its gasoline on the last half of the journey. Had the plane carried a radio, it could have been notified of a 30 m.p.h. tailwind which was blowing on a lower level. Distance: 4,130 mi.; time: 50 hrs., 38 min. (about 300 mi. short of the non-stop Rome-to-Brazil record flight; 15 hrs. short of the German endurance record...
Asia and Back. All alone, Parker Cramer took off last week from Nome, Alaska, flew out over ice-filled Bering Strait, dropped packages at Cape Wales and on Diomede Island, reached East Cape in Siberia, returned to Nome: 400 mi. roundtrip. Next flight: from Nome to New York (not non-stop...