Word: schlee
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...hours after Old Glory had gone out to sea, Tully and Medcalf climbed into the Sir John Carling, a Stinson Detroiter, similar to the ship in which Edward F. Schlee and William S. Brock started around the world. In their map case was a short note. It told of the Old Glory's SOS. The message had come just before Tully and Medcalf left; friends feared to shake their nerves on the take-off by telling them. Somewhere out at sea they must open the map case, and learn how somewhere into the tossing water beneath them another ship...
Counterclockwise to the sun. a U. S. monoplane was winging its way over strange soil and seas. Brown natives on lonely wastes and swarthy fishermen on desolate coasts looked upward from their fires and nets to see the huge hummingbird dart eastward overhead. Edward F. Schlee, Detroit oil man, and William S. Brock, onetime air mail pilot, drove the Pride of Detroit toward the glory of circling the world in record time. The previous record made by airplane, train and boat: 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes...
...Bejanija airdrome, Belgrade, Jugoslavia, late in the morning. They jumped out to stretch, smoke cigarets, eat luncheon, refuel their bird; planned to hop off almost at once for Constantinople. Reports of strong winds and fog directly in their path over Sofia forced caution. Disappointed, they slept in Belgrade. Schlee praised their plane as "more faithful than a woman...
Sixth day. Flyer Schlee was given a "good luck bead," used by Turkish cabbies to decorate their horses, and he blamed the bead for the delay in Turkey. He said it worked against his rabbit's foot. The Pride of Detroit, un-superstitious machine, rose from Constantinople, flew to Bagdad, 1,075 miles, making up time...
Seventh Day. Harassed on the one hand by harsh fatigue, on the other by the passing of precious time, Schlee & Brock swung the Pride of Detroit into the air from Bagdad and flew to Bender Abbas, Persia...