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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While a new transatlantic flyer flashed across the sky last week (see above) oldtime transatlantic flyers made less conspicuous news: Brock & Schlee- In Detroit friends of round-faced William S. Brock and lean Edward Frederick Schlee took steps to restore for exhibition the monoplane Pride of Detroit in which the team flew from Detroit to Tokyo exactly five years ago. Purpose: to raise funds for Pilot Brock who lies ill of cancer in Chicago. Pilot Schlee revealed that he had paid $2.700 for the "public banquet" tendered himself and Brock upon their return from Tokyo. Post & Gatty. At the White...
...sturdy Bernt Balchen, nearly bursting out of a tight dinner jacket. There were beauteous Ruth Elder Camp, mop-headed Amelia Earhart Putnam, and the recluse Lindbergh; Armand Loti of the Yellow Bird who came from France to be present that night; Rear Admiral Byrd, Frank Courtney, Harry Connor. (Brock & Schlee, too, would have been there had they not been forced down flying from Detroit to Manhattan.) They were assembled not to be honored, but to honor belatedly Dr. James Henry ("Doc") Kimball of the New York office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, who has never flown...
...Bremen stranded on Greenly Island. Casting aside all pretense of subtlety, Congress then bestowed the Cross in turn on de Pinedo, Coste and Lebrix - all deserving flyers, thinks Writer Allen, but so are a score of others illogically excluded, among them: Balchen, Acosta, Chamberlin, the late Wilmer Stultz, Brock & Schlee, Yancey & Williams, Kingsford-Smith...
...William S. Brock, of Detroit's famed world flying team, Brock & (Edward Frederick) Schlee...
...Brock & Schlee. From Detroit and the routine of commerce re-emerged last week Edward Frederick Schlee and William S. Brock (Schlee-Brock Aircraft Corp ), once famed as world flyers (TIME, Sept. 12, 1927). Stepping into a Wasp-powered Lockheed Vega at Jacksonville Beach, Fla. they set a new record of 31 hr. 58 min. elapsed time for round-trip flight across the U. S. Their route to and from San Diego. Calif, was 800 mi. shorter than that (Roosevelt Field, L. I. to Los Angeles) over which Capt. Frank M. Hawks made his record of 36 hr. 48 min. last...