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Altitude. A scarlet-and-cream Lockheed-Vega, with handsome Socialite Ruth Nichols at the controls, roared into the sky over Manhattan, settled into a steady climb of nearly an hour's duration. A thermometer on the wing stopped registering at 45° below zero. A high west wind blew the ship backwards, nearly five miles out to sea. Miss Nichols, breathing oxygen that nearly froze her tongue, forced the ship higher and higher until fuel was exhausted, descended with an apparent altitude record for women (subject to confirmation) of more than 30,000 ft. Existing record...
Brock & Schlee. From Detroit and the routine of commerce re-emerged last week Edward Frederick Schlee and William S. Brock (Schlee-Brock Aircraft Corp ), once famed as world flyers (TIME, Sept. 12, 1927). Stepping into a Wasp-powered Lockheed Vega at Jacksonville Beach, Fla. they set a new record of 31 hr. 58 min. elapsed time for round-trip flight across the U. S. Their route to and from San Diego. Calif, was 800 mi. shorter than that (Roosevelt Field, L. I. to Los Angeles) over which Capt. Frank M. Hawks made his record of 36 hr. 48 min. last...
...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 (4,409.24 Ib.) of "pay load" and climbed with...
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...
...Vega Alta, Porto Rico, to Paula Rodriquez and one Ramon Crespo were born one white child, one black child, one light brown child...