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...mile-long runway, then eased her into a gentle climb-100 ft. altitude in about three miles. They were off into the east, to what destination even they knew not. Their sole objective: to fly as far as possible, perhaps to India, to break the 5,130 mi. nonstop record held by Great Britain. Through that day and night and the next day the Joseph LeBrix, sturdy but slow, plodded across the Atlantic. Storms battered her. but visibility meant little to her pilots; they were flying by instrument and by radio. On the second evening they swooped low-over...
...evening after Wiley Post's homecoming, Floyd Bennett Field was thronged again. A Sunday crowd was there to see Britain's favorite flyers, brawny Capt. James Allan Mollison and his nervy wife, Amy Johnson Mollison. end a nonstop flight from Wales. Theirs was a fantastic venture. They intended to rest a few days in New York, then take off for Bagdad in one jump for a distance record of 6,000 mi. Then they would hop home to London, cash in enough on publicity to retire for life...
...half-mile run to get off. In an hour it was over the ocean. For a day, a night, and another day the plane roared westward across the Atlantic like a perfectly aimed projectile to the eastern tip of Cuba, settled down at Camaguey, flew on to Havana. The nonstop distance over water, 4,500 mi., was second only to Herndon & Pangborn's record from Japan...
Zilch. Lieut.-Commander Francis Monroe Hawks flew nonstop across the U. S. last week in 13½ hr., four hours faster than the previous nonstop record which he also held. Commander Hawks held the controls for a little less than one-third of the time-the first two hours out of Los Angeles, the last two hours before landing in Brooklyn. The rest of the time, the ship was guided by "Mr. Zilch," Commander Hawks's name for a robot pilot built by George De Besson, California engineer. Said Pilot Hawks: ''The only trouble...
...Pangborn, hard-bitten barnstormer, took off from New York City for a speed flight around the world. They finished it in October, following a series of misadventures in Japan where they were arrested for traversing forbidden military territory. They distinguished themselves as the first flyers to cross the Pacific nonstop, a feat which has not been duplicated. Soon after their return Pilot Pangborn broke into print with a grievance against his partner, alleging that Herndon had forced him into a disadvantageous contract shortly before the takeoff, when Pangborn had to accept or back out, running the risk of being called...