CRACKED PROPELLER
WHY DURATION AIRMEN HAD TO LAND OVER A WEEK ALOFT (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) NEW YORK, Sunday. In their endurance flight at Fort Worth, Texas, Reginald Robbins and James Kelly remained in the air more than 21 hours longer thau the record of the army airplane Question Mark. The airmen r ere forced to land because the propeller of their monoplane, the Forth Worth, was cracked. They had been cruising through stormy weather and were weary. Another factor was the violent vibration of the machine. When the machine landed 20,000 people rushed the ropes and the special guards, in order to greet Robbins and Kelly. The latter’s wife and five-year-old son welcomed him. The pilots have flown to considerable fortune as well as fame. In addition to donations of nearly £4,000 they have received offers for newspaper and magazine articles, also of engagements in moving pictures and on vaudeville tours. The motor of the monoplane is still in perfect order. The propeller is the only part of the machine damaged. It bears long cracks which show the i severity of the hailstorm through ' which they passed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 674, 28 May 1929, Page 9
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