AVIATORS SEEK RECORD, REFUELLING IN THE AIR
ONE SNATCHES PETROL FROM THE GROUND—-NURSE-PLANE IDEA (United I'.A.—By Telegraph—CopyrightJ (United Service) Reed. 9.5 a.rn. VANCOUVER, Thurs. Two airplanes are aloft, trying to break endurance records, but both are making use of trick devices for refuelling in the air. At Marshall, Missouri, a small Darling monoplane, NB3, is soaring over the silowfields, with Leonard Rhiner and Blaine Tuxhorn as pilots. Whenever they run short of gasoline they dip to the ground, and with a forklike chain, snatch containers of gas from the ground. Several pick-ups have been perfectly accomplished. They hope to continue for a week or more. At Rockwell Field, San Diego, seven Army aviators are apparently .working successfully with a flying filling-sta-tion. They are using a tri-motored Fokker named Already they have, been a.loft 36 hours- Every few hours they make contact w-ith a nurse plane above, getting XOO 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 made by plane or dirigible.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 553, 4 January 1929, Page 1
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178AVIATORS SEEK RECORD, REFUELLING IN THE AIR Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 553, 4 January 1929, Page 1
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