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American Boy. A flight from New York to Los Angeles, begun on Monday and completed Sunday, is not in itself remarkable. But if the flyer be the young son of a crack airman who met spectacular death; and if the boy seeks a "junior speed record," public fancy is captured. Last week Frank Goldsborough, 19, son of the late Brice Goldsborough,* crossed the U. S. in 34 hr. 3 min. flying time, in a biplane named American Boy. Previous "record" of 48 hr., set last year by 18-year-old Richard James, was spread over a month elapsed time. Young...
High over San Francisco's Golden Gate during last week's western war games, Flyer-Artist Clayton Knight sketched the position of two "enemy submarines" driving toward the metropolis. He handed the chart to Lieut. Haydn P. Roberts, radio engineer, who inserted it in a cylindrical machine. Forty seven seconds later the drawing was reproduced in a receiving device at Mather Field, 75 mi. away, whence a squadron of bombers was sent to destroy the invaders. While the picture was being transmitted, Flyer-Artist Knight conversed with ground officers, elaborated on the scene. Based on a principle akin to telephotography...
...stunt flyer is Charles Augustus Lindbergh. It was for "pure experiment" last week that he and his small wife flew the 2,700 mi. from Glendale, Calif., to Roosevelt Field, L. I., with a 22 min. stop at Wichita, Kan. It took them only 14 hr.. 45 min., 32 sec., nearly three hours faster than any previous crossing of the U. S., but Col. Lindbergh deprecated efforts to credit him with breaking the record of Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks which, he pointed out, was a nonstop flight with a heavy fuel load. The Lindberghs held to levels between...
What started the investigation was the resignation of Lieut. Alford Joseph Williams Jr., the Navy's fastest flyer (TIME, March 17). From the witness stand Lieut. Williams told his story...
Buried. Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson, famed polar flyer; during a snowstorm at Hatton, N. Dak. His body had been brought back from Cape North, Siberia, where he crashed in a blizzard flying to aid an ice-locked furship (TIME, Jan. 6 et. seq.). Two days late for the burial, an airplane from the stormy East brought Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Eielson's comrade on many a frigid flight, to lay a wreath, gaze at the white grave, fly away...