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...Honolulu Airport one day last week, a tiny, single-engined Beechcraft Bonanza was rolled out onto the runway. Into it stepped lanky, 29-year-old William P. Odom, round-the-world speed champion (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947), dressed in a splashy tie, double-breasted suit and Homburg hat. Odom had managed to cram 300 gallons of gasoline into his red-and-silver monoplane, some in extra tanks on his wings and some in his cabin...
With a handful of chicken sandwiches, a Thermos jug of hot tea and some water beside him, Odom took off and headed east. Nine hundred miles away, he waved goodbye to a B-17 which had gone with him for company. Six hours later he waved hello to another which came out to escort him over San Francisco. Over Chicago, he failed to notice that a gas tank had gone dry, lost several thousand feet before he could get his stalled engine started from another tank. Over Pennsylvania, he plugged in an electric razor and shaved. Then he landed...
...Aviator William P. Odom set a new distance record for single-engined light airplanes when he flew a 185-h.p. Beechcraft 2,407 miles* from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif. Said Odom, stepping out of the plane after his 22-hour flight: "I've never been so thirsty in my life. I guess it was looking at all that water...
Divorced. William P. (Bill) Odom, 28, record-breaking (73 hrs. 5 min.) round-the-world flyer (the Reynolds Bombshell); by Dorothy W. Odom, 28; after nearly nine years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
Milton Reynolds, Chicago's high-flying penmaker, and globe-circling Bill Odom took off from Honolulu. The only purpose of their trip, they said, was to Look for a hitherto undiscovered world's tallest mountain, somewhere near the headwaters of the Yangtze. For the benefit of Chinese Communists, they added firmly that they were not looking for uranium...