Word: yancey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hoppers. Unquenched by high percentage of failures, two flyers last week winner in the Oakland-Honolulu flight of 1927 (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927), in a specially built plane will attempt to fly from Paris to New York solo. Capt. Lewis A. Yancey, Maine-to-Spain non-stopper (TIME, July 22), has in mind a west-east crossing with Emile H. Burgin...
...pending merger with Airvia. Still other inspectors visited Hadley & Co., investment security sellers. Federal warrants were issued for the arrest of one Austin Howard Montgomery (alias Arthur Montgomery, alias Monte Griffo, onetime convict) and Gerald Tiffany (alias Harry Taylor). Trans-Atlantic Flyers Roger Quincy Williams and Lewis A. Yancey brought about the investigations and warrants...
...more shares after the flight. To protect the values of their stock they stipulated that Promoter Montgomery sell no Airvia stock publicly for two years. While they were in Europe, Promoter Montgomery began to reave out stock at $8 to $12 a share. For that reason, Messrs. Williams and Yancey say, they resigned from Airvia...
...Boston Line. Airvia Transportation Co. last week began its long-planned seaplane service between New York and Boston with American Aeronautical Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes. Colonial Airways operates land planes between those cities. Airvia's first working planes are named the Roger Q. Williams and the Lewis A. Yancey, after the trans-Atlantic flyers (TIME, July 15), both members of the firm...
...Roger Quincy Williams, left-handed pilot, and Lewis Yancey, left- handed navigator, after a six-week wait and two accidents to their first plane, the Green Flash, flew a second Bellanca, one- Whirlwind-motored Pathfinder, unerringly from Old Orchard, Me., to Santander, Spain, where gas shortage had forced the Old Orchard-Paris Yellow Bird down three weeks prior (TIME, June 24). Gas shortage also arrested the Pathfinder's flight. Bound for Rome, she rose again and got there without another stop...