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...White House motor rolled up before him. Behind it came the presidential bodyguard, buttoning their shirts and tying their cravats as they scrambled into their escort car. A brief nod of farewell to his camp guests and President Hoover, without dinner, started down the mountain toward the capital 112 mi. away. Thirty miles along the road a car from his camp careened up beside the President's motor. Its driver handed Mr. Hoover a box of sandwiches prepared after his departure. Without stopping the President munched bread & chicken & cheese while his car whizzed through heavy holiday traffic...
...Distance covered: 15,474 mi.; flying time, 4 days, 10 hr. Previous round-the-world record was the Graf Zeppelin's 21 days 7 hr. 34 min. Her distance was 19,500 mi...
...special fuel tanks he alternately poked his sextant through a port in the roof, scribbled his computations, passed written directions to the pilot, and pumped gasoline up into the wing tanks. Hard work, but nothing compared to the ordeal of last summer when he and Harold Bromley got i.200 mi. from Japan in an attempt flight to the U. S. and then had to fight their way back to shore with a broken exhaust ring spewing carbon mon- oxide gas into the cabin. That put him in a hospital for two months. This navigating business had been his forte since...
...mean flying across Poland and into Russia, 1,000 mi. of "hedgehopping" under a creeping low ceiling of fog and rain. But Post & Gatty appeared fresh and vigorous to the Ossoviakhim (Soviet Society for Aviation and Chemical Defense) who greeted them late that after- noon. Someone in the crowd offered Gatty a Russian cigaret, but he was still smoking from a pack bought in New York, "day before yesterday." There was a nine-course dinner at the Grand Hotel, champagne spurned again by the flyers. Two hours rest, then out to the airport soon after midnight. Here the take...
...Blagovyeschensk, 850 mi. beyond Irkutsk, the flyers encountered their first serious trouble when the Winnie Mae mired in mud. It was 14 hours before a detachment of soldiers with a U. S.-made tractor pulled the plane out. At Khabarovsk Post and Gatty deliberately sacrificed another 26 hours of their ahead-of-schedule time by giving their plane a minute overhaul, and taking 12 hours' sleep in preparation for the hazardous 2,100 mi. dash to Nome. They took off in the face of doubtful weather over the Gulf of Tartary. the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Bering Sea. This...