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...college woman advanced abruptly to the front of aviation news last week when Ruth Rowland Nichols, Wellesley graduate, flew the first non-stop flight from New York to Miami. The direct route took the plane often out of sight of land; flying 12 hours from field to field. Miss Nichols has made many flights; en route to Miami she piloted the plane for a five hour stretch. With her were Harry Rogers, President of the Rogers Air Line of Miami ; and Major M. K. Lee, business and sportsman. Said Miss Nichols: "Major Lee demonstrated his faith in my flying ability...
Performance. The Los Angeles came from Germany, where she was built (Zeppelin ZR-3), in 80 hours, a non-stop flight of 5,060 miles (TIME, Oct. 20, Oct. 27, 1924). Her top speed is 70 m. p. h. She has visited Bermuda, Porto Rico, flown many training flights at sea; voyaged 50,370 nautical miles since her arrival in 1924. Her usual cruising crew is about 45. She will carry 100 passengers who can stroll her length (656 feet) in "cat walks" built inside...
Life's Centre Spread: A rooftop. Smoke from the chimneys. Two chil- dren, their clothes blown by the wind, gazing upward. Riding across the sky Santa Claus, cracking his whip over reindeer. Caption: "I Wonder If It's Another Non-Stop Flight...
...Costes, in the same Brequet plane that vanquished the Atlantic, had made non-stop flights from Paris to Siberia, and again from Paris to Persia. So ably did his ship perform on every occasion (it averaged 110 miles to the hour over the Atlantic), many people thought that, if the weather had been possible this summer, he would have succeeded in a proposed flight from Paris to Manhattan...
Another $10,000 prize went unclaimed. Prospective entries in a non-stop race from New York to Spokane dropped out so that when starting time came only Eddie Stinson and C. A. (Duke) Schiller hopped off. Both flew Stinson-Detroiter monoplanes, manufactured in Stinson's name in Detroit. Both, nearly there, dropped in Montana. After flying all night through difficult weather, Mr. Schiller was forced down at Billings, almost out of gas, Mr. Stinson reached Missoula, which has a flying field, with his motor balking from a stuck valve. Fearing wild intervening country, he decided not to chance...