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Across Cranwell Airdrome, near Lincoln, England, stretches a mile-long runway. It was built four years ago by the Royal Air Force to launch a giant monoplane on a nonstop flight to Cape Town...
...itself-The American Nurse. I am sure that she would object to your "flew, by fits and starts, around the world last year." At best, your statement belittles. If asked for her record she might truthfully say: 1) I am the only airplane to have flown both major oceans nonstop. 2) From a beach in Japan I lifted from the sand and flew with a wing loading of 30 Ib. per sq. ft. The maximum theoretical limit for any airplane is 28 pounds per square foot. 3)1 hold the record of having flown farther over water than any other...
...Gosh." Clyde Allen Lee, 24, a lank youth of Oshkosh, Wis., solicited a few hundred dollars from local merchants to help him fly his Stinson monoplane, with Oshkosh B'Gosh painted on its fuselage, nonstop to Oslo, Norway. The scheme fell through. Pilot Lee flew east, got natives of Montpelier and Barre, Vt., to pay to have Oshkosh B'Gosh erased and Green Mountain Boy painted instead. He picked up a mechanic named John Bochkon, a towheaded Norwegian who used to be known as "The Swede" when he was a night watchman at Curtiss-Wright Airport...
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...Making the first nonstop flight to Panama...