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...close on his tail. The two were nearly even for the last hazardous lap across the Timor Sea. Then Lieut. Hill was forced down on the Island of Timor and, in trying to take off again, his plane overturned. The Southern Cross Jr., sweeping past Timor in an attempted nonstop dash to Port Darwin, ran into headwinds and was also forced back to land at Timor. Next day Kingsford-Smith took it off safely, finished the 12,000-mi. flight...
...will welcome you. . . ." Other investigators at Irving, Kan., found that Ruth Alexander, 24, had been married twice before. Her second husband's divorce suit was still pending. Miss Alexander made an unofficial women's altitude record of 26,000 ft. for light planes last July, last month flew nonstop from Vancouver, B. C. to Agua Caliente (Mexico...
Bromley's Luck (cont.). In the fourth plane built for the purpose, Lieut. Harold Bromley & Navigator Harold Gatty finally took off last week from Samishiro Beach, Aomori Prefecture, Japan for a nonstop flight to Tacoma, Wash. Twenty-five hours later they were down again at Shiriyazaki, about 40 mi. from the starting point. Reports were meagre, but it was known that the City of Tacoma, an Emsco monoplane, had been in the thick of headwinds, rain and peasoup fog in its course over the Kuriles Islands. One despatch indicated that the plane was forced back by a broken exhaust...
...Lindberghs on Easter Sunday. Said he: "I am not interested in records. It was purely a business demonstration of the possibilities of an aerial pony express. With relays of pilots and fast planes at intermediate points ... I think a schedule of 13 to 15 hrs. could be maintained. . . . The nonstop flight is of no value. Why load up with a lot of gas? ... I didn't really have the ship 'wide open'; but I don't think the flight can be made much faster...
Toothpaste. Since early this year, Kolynos Co. of New Haven, Conn, (which annually hands out thousands of little yellow tubes of toothpaste at Yale football games) fondled the idea of stimulating its South American trade with a publicity flight. The Stinson monoplane K, it was planned, would fly nonstop 9,000 mi. to Buenos Aires, refueling in the air en route. After weeks of persistent misadventure, the K took off from New Haven two months ago, landed the same day at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. where the crew of three angrily disbanded. Last week Pilots Garland Peed, Randy Enslow...