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Then Oakland, thoroughly alarmed, heard from Stead. "Something must be wrong with the Oakland range," he said. With only 60 gallons of gas left, he reported: "Don't know exactly where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Trip 6 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Where Trip 6 was was on the northwest leg of the Oakland range, not the northeast. Stead was headed for the sea, not Oakland, but for 35 minutes beyond the time he should have been over Oakland he had been convincing himself that his course was deflected by a side wind. At 4:16 he came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Trip 6 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Pilots have got on the wrong leg of a radio range before, but few have posed questions to their dispatchers like those that Pilot Stead now proceeded to ask. He wanted to know what was the engine's best manifold pressure to conserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Trip 6 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Oakland to Stead: Decrease [propeller'] revolutions per minute to seventeen hundred, and increase the manifold pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Trip 6 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Oakland to Stead: Oakland ceiling 2200 . . . visibility 20 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Trip 6 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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