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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ruth McConnell, 20, of Rochester, N. Y., took train for San Francisco one day last week. Three days later, David O. Meeker, medical student, also of Rochester, appeared at the Omaha, Neb., airport and hired a plane to take him to San Francisco. Word got around that Mr. Meeker was chasing Miss McConnell; the press played up the affair as if it were some sort of Derby. Miss McConnell won, arriving in San Francisco a day ahead of Mr. Meeker. It developed that Miss McConnell had been in a nervous condition and that Mr. Meeker, a friend of her family...
...many days can a crew of five endure a continuous airplane flight? How many days can a motor keep the plane going? The Army wants to know. So do motor and plane makers, passenger and freight carriers. One condition of such tests is that the plane be fueled in the air. An initial experiment took place at Boiling Field, Washington, last week. While a trimotored Fokker army transport flew at 80 m. p. h., a light refueling plane hovered above her and pumped down gasoline and oil through hoses, dropped food with a rope. The preliminary test worked...
Viola Gentry of Gentry, N. C.. dressed herself snugly at Roosevelt Field, L. I., last week, and took up a Travel Air plane, equipped with Siemens-Halske motor. She sought and gained something that has no real aeronautical importance-the woman's endurance record. Her time aloft alone was 8 hrs. 6 min. 37 sec., better than Lady Sophie Heath's 77-hr, record made earlier this year. Sixteen years ago, when planes were a novel and dangerous experiment, Ruth Law stayed up six hours. Neither the National Aeronautic Association or the Federation Aeronautique Internationale pays attention...
...fortnight ago flew a Travel Air all alone from San Francisco home. Because he was the first boy under 21 to make a transcontinental solo flight, the American Society for the Promotion of Aviation gave him a $1,000 prize, Siemens & Halske Motor Co. (whose engine drove his plane) gave him a silver loving cup, and, last week, President Coolidge shook his hand...
Peculiar was the big duralumin plane delivered at the Newark, N. J., Field last week for testing. Its 46-ft. fuselage is 11 ft. wide, almost twice the ordinary width. Its nose encloses two water-cooled V-type, 662-h. p. engines. The fuselage has room in an 11 ft. by 17 ft. space for 20 passengers, and back of that, place for 1,000 Ibs. baggage. Wing spread is 89 ft., load capacity 7½ tons, cruising speed 150 m. p. h., high speed 175 m. p. h. It was secretly built for P. W. Chapman of Sky Lines...