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Excepting the DO-X, the Hutchinson party was the largest yet to attempt a transatlantic crossing in one plane. Besides the four Hutchinsons there were a navigator, radioman, mechanic, and an RKO-Van Buren cinematographer. On their take-off from Floyd Bennett Field. N. Y., the Hutchinsons?George, 30, Blanche, 28, Kathryn, 8, Janet Lee, 6?were uniformed in brown sport coats, buff polo shirts, suede riding breeches. So were the dolls, Kathryn's Patsy Joan and Janet's Patsy...
...travel in wheelbarrows, while I travel in air planes." During most of the night before his death, Salesman Bat'a worked over the terms of a shoe contract he hoped to close in Switzerland. Rising at 5 a. m. he fumed at the fog & mist which made a take-off risky. Twice the pilot refused his mas ter's order to start. Finally at 6:30 a. m. Bat'a said, "We must start...
...hill like a stone from a boy's slingshot. Headed into the teeth of a 30 m. p. h. wind, Unguentine zoomed up 175 ft. without advancing more than 50 ft. Pilot Eaton landed without delay. His comment: "Plenty tough." Only one other pilot ventured a take-off that day. Jack O'Meara, who has glided up & down thermic currents over Manhattan, soared for 3 hr. 42 min., climbed to 3,259 ft., 45 ft. short of the U. S. altitude record. Other pilots & crews amused themselves as they do on windless days, playing baseball...
When a pilot lands out of sight of his take-off he gets to a telephone, calls headquarters at Elmira Airport. Headquarters flashes his position by short-wave radio to the crew atop the ridge, and off they go with the trailer to retrieve the ship...
...Pilot Warren Eaton, son of Vice President Melvin Eaton of Norwich Pharmacal Co. Robert, who last year piled up more points than his uncle, went for a sail of several miles and turned back. Failing to realize how far he had gone, he passed directly over his original take-off point, landed somewhere else. Had he been aware, he could have made a record for distance-&-return. Flying weather was so good for the first stage of the meet that pilots welcomed two days of doldrums in which to rest, make repairs...