FLYING RECORDS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 228, 26 August 1932, Page 7

FLYING RECORDS

ESTABLISHED BY MRS PUTNAM. TRIP ACROSS UNITED STATES. OVER NINETEEN HOURS IN THE AIR. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 26, 8.50 a.m. NEW JERSEY, Aug. 25. Mrs Amelia (Earliart) Putnam landed at 10.23 a.m. to-day from Los Angelos, having completed the first transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman in 19 hours seven minutes. She also won the distance flight record tor women of 2500 miles. The record was previously held by Miss Ruth Nichols with 2000 miles from Oakland to Louisville, Kentucky, last year. Mrs Putnam, who was very tired, was nearly mobbed by the crowd, whose anxiety was increased by the fact that she was reported only once during the entire trip. “It was a beautiful trip,” she said. “If I had had such weather on my first attempt, I would have broken the record then,” sho added. On tho previous attempt Mrs Putnam halted at Columbus through engine trouble. She flew mostly at 10,000 feet and followed the airlines, cutting the corners a bit.

The route was from Los Angles across mountains and desert.

ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

DEPARTURE FROM HARBOUR

GRACE.

Received August 26, 9.55 a.m. HARBOUR GRACE, Aug. 25. Messrs Leo and Brockton hopped off for Oslo at 5.31 a.m. to-day with gasoline for 37 hours. The flight is expected to take 30 hours. The weather reports aro good. The doors of tho cabin have been sealed, emergency gasoline tanks installed, and a hole cut through the roof as a means of entrance or exit.

In the caso of being forced down they hope to empty tho gasoline cans to give buoyancy until the motor can be cut from tho plane with a hacksaw they are carrying for tho purpose.

CAPTAIN GRONAU’S PROGRESS

Received August, 25, 9.55 a.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 25.

A message from Cordova, Alaska, states 1 that Captain von Gronau, the German flyer, hopped off for Dutch Harbour to-dav.

NORWEGIANS’ CRASH

NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH,

ST. JOHN’S. Aug. 24

That the Norwegian flyers, Thor Solberg and Carl Petersen, narrowly escaped death when they crashed at Darby’s Harbour is shown by the details brought by Mr Douglas Fraser, a St. John’s aviator, after a flight to the scene of the crash.

Mr Solberg told Mr Fraser that they encountered a rain and wind storm and climbed to 5000 feet to escape it. They then encountered a snow storm, and tho engine stalled. They volplaned, but the ship went into a nosedive into the harbour. They were rescued by fishermen.

MOLLISON’S RETURN POSTPONED. Received August 2G, 10.30 a.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 25. Mr J. A. Mollison has postponed his return flight for some days owing to the unfavourable weather forecast. “SCOTSMAN’S PARADISE.” Received August 26, 10.55 a.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 25. Several speakers at a luncheon today in honour of Mr Mollison, referred to the fact that he had hut 67 cents when he landed in Canada. The flier, in responding, said: “I still have the same 07 cents, so I think New York must be a real Scotsman’s Paradise.”