AMAZING FLIGHT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 730, 1 August 1929, Page 9

AMAZING FLIGHT

AIRMEN ALOFT FOR 17V DAYS NEW WORLD RECORD (Australian and N.Z. Press Association j ST. LOUIS, Tuesday. An amazing feat in aviation was accomplished today by Messrs. Dale Jackson and Forest Obriue in the monoplane St. Louis Robin. They landed at 7.38 p.m. after having been in the air 17 days 12 hours 21 minutes. The flyers have thus established a new world record for an endurance flight for machines refuelled in the air. Several remarkable endurance flights have been made by American airmeYi this year. On January 1 Major Carl Spatz and three companions in a Fokker monoplane. the Question Mark, descended at Los Angeles after having remained in the air 6 days 6 hours 46 minutes. On May 26 at Fort Worth. Texas, Reginald Robbins and Janies Kelly completed an endurance flight of 7 days 4 hours 32 minutes. On May 29 Herbert Fahy, flying in a monoplane, broke the official and unofficial endurance solo flight records. He had been in continuous flight for 36 hours 56 minutes 36 seconds. A new world record for refuelled airplane flights was established at Cleveland, Ohio, on July 6 by two pilots, Mitchell and Newcomb, in the monoplane City of Cleveland. They descended early in the morning after having been in the air for 7 days 6 hours 59 seconds. That record only held for a few* days, for on July 12 a new one of 10 days 6 hours 43 minutes for a flight in which the airplane was refuelled in the air was established at Culver City, California, by L. W. Mendell and R. B. Reinhart in the biplane Angelo. Now Messrs. Jackson and Obrinc have beaten that record by more than one week.