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Pacific Coast racers, coming up from San Francisco, landed the same afternoon; the winner of $1,500 for the 900-mile flight was N. C. Lippiatt in a Travelair biplane...
...Plane a Curtis Travelair...
...groping through fog might drive two men in an airplane-a land airplane over an ocean-close to distraction. So thought radio operators listening last week to the day-and- nightlong flashes of Ernest L. Smith, civilian pilot, and Emory Bronte, navigator, who entered dense fog with their Travelair monoplane, City of Oakland, soon after leaving Oakland, Calif., for Honolulu in mid-Pacific. "Foggy as hell," snapped Flyer Smith's first signals. Then he seemed to get used to it and flashed: "Going fine ... we will run out of it soon." Again, he said: "Go-ing strong. . . . Radio beacon...
Smith & Carter. Two hours after the Army plane had left Oakland, two civilians-Pilot Ernest L. Smith and Navigator Charles H. Carter-set out to race it to Hawaii in a little Travelair plane. An unusual accident, the breaking of the navigator's windshield, caused the Travelair to return to Oakland in ten minute...