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...they had commuted 44 times from Chartres to Étampes, covered a distance of 2,732 miles. Then they stayed in the air over the airdrome nearly another two hours, making it in all 45 hr., 11 min., 59 sec.?a new world's non-stop flight record...
...Finally the NC-4's range was only 1,600 mi. with every tank brimming with gasoline, while the new boat will have a range of 2,600 mi. Incidentally, this is the greatest range ever embodied in any airplane. True, Macready and Kelly flew 2,600 mi. non-stop across the Continent and still had gas to spare in their Fokker monoplane. But their ship was stripped bare. The new seaplane, when making a single hop from San Diego to Honolulu, will carry not just gas, but a full crew of five men and powerful fighting and bombing...
...Nick Nack, owned by Humphrey Birge of Buffalo, third. Nick Nack finished second to Baby Gar III in 1922, at Hamilton, Ontario, and was awarded a protest that Wood's boat had an airplane engine. This year Wood's secret of success was carrying fuel enough for non-stop heats...
...from the Icelandic harbor. From here they were to fly to Ivigtut on the western shore of the huge continent of Greenland, sheltered from easterly currents and therefore open later in the season. But with Angmagsalik closed, it was possible that they would be forced to the truly terrible non-stop flight of 1,000 miles from Reykjavik direct to Ivigtut right across Greenland's icy mountains. In the cruiser Raleigh, however, Rear-Adm. T. P. Magruder searched the southern shores of Greenland for an open space; it was also possible that Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship...
Lieut. Oakley Kelly, he once flew across the U. S. in a 26-hour non-stop flight, With Kelly he established the world's endurance record, flying over Dayton for 34 hours. Officially Frenchman Lecointe still holds the world's altitude record, but on his last attempt to beat this Macready's barograph registered 43,000 feet and when he landed stiff and frost-bitten from the intense cold many experts were of the opinion that he had actually gone higher than the Frenchman. In addition to a few other records, he has the reputation of being...