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...With Captain P. G. ("Bill") Taylor as navigator, Kingsford-Smith flew unerringly 1,700 mi. over the Pacific towards his first stop?Suva, Fiji Islands. There he was delayed a week by storms ahead. On the 3,200-mi. water jump to Honolulu Kingsford-Smith, fumbling in the cockpit during a rainstorm, accidentally knocked down the wing flaps. The plane whipped into a stall, spun down 8.000 ft. into the swirling blackness before he could bring it out. Unnerved but undiscouraged. the aviators swooped into Pearl Harbor to complete in 25 hours the second leg of the world's most...
...ignominiously towed into New York by a black, stumpy little electric locomotive; a state law forbids Diesel-powered engines from using the city tunnels. At Grand Central Terminal M10001 was hailed by Press & public for the fastest coast-to-coast run ever made on rails-3,258 mi. in 56 hr. 55 min. Son Harriman had beaten his father's record by nearly 15 hours, clipped a full day from regular transcontinental express time...
...countries and three continents, required night & day flying over country perilous with jagged mountains, snake-infested jungles, deserts, hurricanes and typhoons. Toughest stretch was across the Syrian Desert where blinding sandstorms sometimes rise 20,000 ft. and huge kitebirds menace aerial navigation. Not much easier was the 2,210-mi. jump from Allahabad to Singapore, with its Bay of Bengal water hop nearly as long as the North Atlantic. To the participants in the race Lloyd's of London gave a 1-in-12 chance of being killed. Purely a long-distance speed race, the MacRobertson Derby...
...Angeles- in 11 hr. 30 min., topped that transcontinental record with another in the opposite direction, in 10 hr. 4 min. Last month he beat that record by two minutes, flew back to Cleveland to win the Thompson Trophy, World's No. 1 closed-course race (100 mi. at 248 m.p.h.). A temperamental prima donna on the ground. Turner is a cold, nerveless machine...
...heyday of absolutism a favorite sport of the Great Powers was partitioning Poland. Last week RFC Chairman Jesse Jones, who is something of a Great Power in U. S. business, proposed to partition a Class I railroad with 1,600 mi. of track and $100,000,000 of assets, good...