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...longest non-stop flight by a rigid dirigible is 5,066 mi., from Friederickshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, N.J., by the Zeppelin ZR3 (now the Los Angeles...
...week to find out how swiftly a commercial aircraft could make the 300-mile run from Miami, Fla., to Havana, Cuba. Arrived at Havana, two hours and five minutes after leaving Miami, Mr. Fokker announced that their average speed of 144 miles an hour constituted a record for a non-stop flight of such length by a commercial airplane...
This distance is 2,100 nautical miles. When the ships had accomplished it (as there seemed every likelihood of their doing, what the guard ships, the good weather) they would have beaten the non-stop flight record established last month by the Frenchmen, Arrachard and Le Caitre. In Honolulu, crowds gathered to watch a tiny plane crawl across a bulletin board, nearer, nearer. When it arrived there would be a holiday...
...reported to Naval listeners that headwinds had forced him to open his throttles in order to keep his headway?that his petrol tanks were consequently emptying too fast. This message of distress was regarded as distinctly alarming. It meant that the Frenchmen would retain for a while longer the non-stop flight record. Why, it might actually means that the Rogers and his men were in danger...
People who remembered the old non-stop record?the 2,520-mile flight from Mineola, L. I., to San Diego, made by Lieutenants Kelly and Macready in 1923 ?curled their lips. To that hazardous leap the ta,me to-and-froing of the Frenchman seemed like a little boys' game. Not so is the purpose for which this game was undertaken?a training test for a direct flight from Paris to New York. Landry, Drouhin, will attempt...