Word: schoenhair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month, Admiral Byrd, in sweater and dungarees, seemed to have changed little. The last stage of the photographs' journey was characteristic of the entire Byrd press exploit. Sent by ship from New Zealand, the pictures were picked up in Cristobal, C. Z. by Airman Lee Schoenhair, flown to Tela (Honduras), to Miami, to Richmond, to Newark. At Newark Airport agents from the Associated Press, Wide World Photos (New York Times) and the Paramount News divided them, raced to Manhattan to spread them nationwide. First to reach Manhattan was an Associated Press man on a motorcycle...
...which break such obvious world records as speed, altitude, duration, distance. More satisfying to manufacturers and operators are less spectacular, technical records such as the two which U. S. flyers broke last month and the one which Boris Sergievsky broke last week. Last month it was Pilots Zimmerly and Schoenhair who, flying Barling and Lockheed Vega ships, respectively set new world records for altitude and speed with weight (TIME, March 10). Last week Pilot Sergievsky, who like his employer, Igor Sikorsky, is a naturalized U. S. citizen, filled a Sikorsky seaplane with two long tons...
Speed with weight: Lee Schoenhair, at Jacksonville, Fla., flew in a Lockheed Vega (Pratt & Whitney Wasp motor), with 500 kilograms added weight; 100 kilometers at 185.4 m.p.h.: 500 kilometers at 171.2 m. p. h.; 1,000 kilometers at 152.7 m. p. h. Also flew with 1,000 kilograms added weight; 100 kilometers at 175.9 m. p. h.; 500 kilometers at 168.1 m. p. h.; 1,000 kilometers...
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