AMERICAN EAST-WEST AIR RECORD BROKEN.
■"■' ' •' .'.'.. " * • 1.1 "'■"■ - . Cabled advice.-" has been received dated 6th August, 'that Captain Frank Hawks, piloting i travel-air mystery ship "Texaco 13" ori that date broke the existing East-West trancontinental aeroplane speed record of 18 hours 40 minutes, by 3 hours 60 minutes. The time for 2,400 miles from New York to Los Angeles wasl 14 hours 50 minutes. Five 15-minute stops were made. Captain Hawks is to stop an undeter mined time m Los Angeles, and will, then attempt to break the West-East record of 14- hours 21 minutes. ~ ' The "Texaco 13 is a low-winged monoplane, 20 feet 2 inches long, ; powered by a. 300 -horsepower Wright J-.6 special racing engine. The wingspan is 30 feet wit4i bullet-like streamlined fuselage. She is owned by. the Texas Corporation of America, the World's largest independent Oil Company.
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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 1281, 19 August 1930, Page 3
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139AMERICAN EAST-WEST AIR RECORD BROKEN. Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 1281, 19 August 1930, Page 3
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