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...sole financiers of the company the Brothers Ludington might well be proud. But they would be first to insist that all credit go to two young men who sold them the plan and then made it work: brawny, handsome Gene Vidal, West Point halfback of 1916-20, onetime Army flyer: and squint-eyed, leathery Paul ("Dog") Collins, War pilot, oldtime airmail pilot...
Meanwhile at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, nearest airport to Garden City, the 1911 flight was to be reenacted by Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones in a 1911 Curtiss "pusher," and by Dean Smith, crack airmail pilot and Antarctic flyer of the Byrd expedition, in a Pilgrim monoplane. One sack of mail was to be dropped by parachute near the Mineola postoffice, the remainder flown to Newark for transfer to regular airmail planes...
...steamer no mi. from the starting point. It was not seen again. Following night the captain of another steamer off the coast of Alaska thought he heard a plane overhead, but there was no further clue. Weather was bad. Neither Moyle nor Allen was an experienced long distance flyer or navigator. Their plane, named the Clasina Madge for the daughter of Backer John Buffelin, Tacoma lumberman, had failed twice before: once (as the City of Tacoma) when Bromley & Gatty flew it 1,200 mi. from Tokyo and were forced back with a broken exhaust pipe; once when (as the Pacific...
Three days later, another flyer made a record in the No. 1 event of National Air Race week at Cleveland, the 100-mi. Thompson Trophy Race. Lowell Bayles, onetime coal miner, of Springfield, Mass., flying a Gee-Bee speedster, covered the 100 miles in 25 min. 23:88 sec. His average speed, 236 m.p.h., was 35 m.p.h. better than the late Charles W. ("Speed") Holman's when he won the race a year...
Transpacific. After months of effort Don Moyle and C. A. Allen, Californians, got their City of Tacoma off Sabishiro Airport, Japan; started for Seattle, $75,000 rewards and, for Flyer Moyle, a 30-day Los Angeles jail sentence for driving a motor car while drunk...