AIR STUNTS
BR EA R TNG ENDURANCE RECORDS. NOVEL REFILLING RUSES. United Press Association—By EUetric Telegraph—Copyright). fßeceived this day at 9.2/5. a.m.) VANCOUVER, Jan. 3. Two aeroplanes are aloft trying to break endurance records, but both arc making ::se of trick devices for refuelling in the air. At .Marshall. .Missouri, a small Darling monoplane N. 8.3, is soaring over the snowfields with Leonard lMiiner and Blaine Tuxhorn, as pilots. Whene'er they run short of gasolene they dip to the ground and with a fork-line chom snatch containers of fuel from the ground. Several pickup have been perfectly accomplished. Thev hope to continue for a week or more. At Rockwell Field, San Diego, seven army aviators are apparently working sure, ssl'iillv with a flying lilPng station. They are using a tri-mot-ored Fokkor. Nance Quest ioimmrk, and already have boon aloft for tfiir-Iv-six hours. Every few hours they ’"■>l e contact with a nurse plane above, getting a hundred gallons of gasoline each time, through a hose, ■ hot food, newspapers, and messages are dropped aboard by lines. They hope to break every endurance record by plane or dirigible..
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1929, Page 5
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186AIR STUNTS Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1929, Page 5
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