Word: racer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Booming along between 3,000 and 4,000 ft., the Sun Racer crossed the Alleghenies in a cold fog. Over the radiotelephone from the airport at Pittsburgh came reassuring word of good visibility below 1,700 ft. Pilot Ferguson listened to the staccato hum of the radio-beacon in his earphones, reported his position as ten miles east of Pittsburgh, said he was coming down to land. Nellie Granger poked her head into the pilot's cabin, asked him what time they would be down. Said Ferguson, "About 10:12." The hostess went aft, saw that the eleven passengers...
...Pittsburgh airport the minutes ticked by. At 10:33 a TWA plane landed, but it was not the Sun Racer. Soon the air was full of monotonous, unanswered calls: Pittsburgh calling Flight I. . . . Columbus calling Ferguson on Flight I. . . . Camden calling Flight I. . . . Pittsburgh calling Flight...
Nellie Granger, registered nurse, insisted on returning to the wreck with mountaineers. Near the smoking debris of the Sun Racer they found still alive the two passengers who had occupied seats Nos. 7 and 11. One was Mrs. Ellenstein, with two broken legs, the other a Cleve-lander named Challinor, whose ankles were shattered. Miss Granger ministered to them as best she could until State troopers arrived. Later, in a hospital, the hostess could not remember exactly what had happened. She thought she had been able to pull the Newark Mayor's wife and Challinor from the cabin before...
Although Loomis rates as a good Third Class racer, he is going to concentrate on jumping this vacation and plans to enter may of these events this season...
...issue TIME has gone the way of many flesh in the U. S. by saying "Italy sent a Bugatti racer." As every foreign car enthusiast and owner should know, the Italian-named Bugattis are the product of Ettore Bugatti, Molsheim, France...