The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-30
SURPASSES
OLD RECORD
BY z HOURS
Edward Stinson and Lloyd
Bertaud Wrest Honor
From French Flyers.

Mineola. n. Y, Dec. 3O.-CBy the
Associated Press. THE Larsen
monoplane piloted by Edward Stin-
son, which this morning broke the
worlds continuous flying record d
"a hours, 19 minutes and sec
onds, descended shortly after 1I;1o
a. ~. after having been in the air
26 hours, 19 minutes and 35 sec
onds.
The official times were:
Start yesterday morning at
S:5S:15.
Finished this morning at 11:17:
so.
Stinson was forced to descend be
cause of a faulty oil pump with
which he and his mechanlclan,
Lloyd Bertaud, had battled since
3 o'clock this morning. They still
mad gasoline enough to have flown
until sundown.
The pump used to inject oil into
the Iubricating system from the
auxiliary oil tank went out of com
mission at 3 o'clock. The hiers
punctured the tank, set up a tenn
porary tube and began feeding the
lubricating system by hand, taking
turns at the controls of the plane
and at the oil tank.
Both men were almost blinded by
oil when they descended.
In addition they were suffering
! intensely from the bitter cold, for
although thei- plane was equip
ped with a cabin, Stinson had not
/ left his seat in the open cockpit
since 4 p. N. yesterday and his
mechauician found little time 70
seek shelter
Fingers are Frozen.
Three fingers of Stinson's right
hand and one on his left were froz-
en-.
Bertaud's hands were numbed-
Stinson, who halls from San An
tonic, Texas, and Bertaud, whose
home is in New York, were a sor-
~ looking pair when they stepped
from their machine. Neither had
had a wink of sleep since they took
off and Stinson said his only nOuT-
ishment had been little coffee.
Newspaper mel found difficulty in
interviewing Bertaud, who had
been deafened by the roar of the
motor. The fliers, each q years
old, have been lin the air since they
were boys.
The pilot SAL that the maximEra
altitude achieved during the nighN
was 400 feet. The machine car
ried $50 gallons of gasoline when
it took the air and still had 10 when
it landed.
Mineola, n Y, Dec 30.-A new
worlds record for continuous fight
was established today by Edward
Stinson, pilot of an aIl-metaI mono
plane. and his mechanician, Lloyd
Bertrand, when they surpassed the
mark of "a hours, 19 minutes and
seven seconds made in France in
June, 1920, by Lucien BOussoutrut
and Jean Bernard.
StinsOn and Bertaud commenced
their flight at RossVilIe field at 1885
a. m. yesterday, and at 9:2O a N.
today they were still in the air with
no signs of descending.
Seven judges watched the mono
plane circle over Mineola, Garden
City and Hampstead. In addition.
there were many unofficial Observ-
ers. Observers pointed out that,
whereas previous efforts TO estab-
lish an endurance record had been
made in the most favorable season,
this flight was made with the meT-
curry near the zero mark, TO the ac-
compartment of strong winds and
snow fiurries.
The Aeronautical Chamber of
| Commerce hailed the fight as a fit
ting climax to the achievements Of
American aviation in 1921, when
four world records were made by
Yankee biTdmen. The other three
were:
Aug. 16-A Looming monoplane.
flying boat, rising to 1880 feet
with four passengers. established
an efficiency and passenger record
for a ship of its class.
Sept 28-Lieutenant J. A Nc
Cready of the army air service
drove an airplane to height of
81. 500 feet at Dayton. Ohio. shat
tering the altitude mark Of 22,II4
feet set by Major Rudolph Schroe-
der.
Nov. 3-Perry Acosta, in a Cur
tiss navy racer with a speed OF
1857 miles an hour for 150-miIe
course, broke the record for a clos
ed course in the Pulitzer trophy
race at Omaha, Neb.