The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-21
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H., Kenneth r. Unger, flying plane
No. s., q Travelair plane from Mad
ison, N. j., hoped off and headed
west. He had landed on the field
at 6:48 p. nj. exactly Tuesday even
ing.
Roaring down out of the air, all
in the space of minute, were four
planes, between 7:49 and 1850 this
First land was j. Is.
Sidowsky, plotting plane No. 81,
Coffeyville, KAN, who TAXED onto
the field at exactly TAG and who
took off at 7:54:22. Then, at 7:49:45,
came A. L;tzcnbcrger, flying Waco
10 plane, No. IA in the derby. Litzen-
berger from Erie, Pa, left at
7:59:O2. Third, and just five sec
onds behind Litzenberger, was A. w.
Stephenson, flying plane No. AZ. OF
Dillon, Mont, who landedsat 7:49:5o
and left at 7:58:40. Then, just five
seconds behind Stephenson was an
other Montanan, c. B. McMahan Of
Miles City, Mont, flying plane No.
SO.
Makes Up Lost Time
Litzenberger had left Fargo at
5:31 a. NJ, McMahan at 5:32; Ste
phenson at $3.50 and Sidowsky at
5:43:30. Sidowsky, though at a ~
minute disadvantage, made up his
lost time between Fargo and Bis
marck.
Gerald Smith flying plane No. AZ,
an Eaplerock. landed at the fort field
at 9:12:02 and was out again at
9:27:44. He arrived in Fargo at
6:52:50 and left at 7:O1:O5 today.
He had spent the night in Clithcrall.
where he was forced to land at
$3.50 p. M. on account of trouble with
a water pipe, which had bothered
him during the entire trip. tie lett
Clitherall at 5:55 a. m.
r. j. Johnson of Missoula, flying
plane No. 43, a Swallow, left Fargo
at $3.50 a. m. but was forced down
at jamestown with a broken oil pipe
and did not hop off there until
8:45 a. m. He has no hope of
reaching Spokane today, but does
hope to reach Billings or Missoula,
his home town. This is his second
force-down, the first being two
hours Tuesday at La Crosse, Wis.
He was first away at Fargo this
morning and made 20 miles before
trouble forced him down.
Johnson, plotting plane No. 43,
landed at 9:59:02 and left at
1O:10:51.
r. E. Dake of Hibbing, entry
No. IS in the derby, left st. Paul
at 7:36:48 a. m. and was followed at
8:12:4O a. m. by M. H. McMechan
of Yakima, Wash, No. So.
Dake reached Bismarck at | :46:2O
this afternoon and left at 2:10:40.
Roberts On Way
Pilot v. l.. Roberts Of Fargo,
forced down by darkness on the edge
of St. Paul Monday night, reached
the st. Paul airport early today
Una..e to get new motor for his
plane from Detroit promptly, Rob
erts decided to continue and left
st. Paul for Fargo at 9:52:56 a. m.
in his entry No. 81.
Unger, plotting a Travelair plane,
had one of the most dramatic trips
OIL any of the pilots, from st. Paul
west. Arriving in Fargo at 4:24:15
p. M, he swooped down on the field
and was clicked in by the official
time, shut off his engine for but
three minutes before he began pre-
pairing to depart again. For a few
seconds, it seemed that the 4:3l
limit on departure would hold Ungel
overnight, but h got going in time
to leave the ground at 4:29:45, fi.e
minutes exactly after he landed and
just Is seconds inside the 4:30 limit.
Between Fargo and Bismarck
Unger spurted. Just 20 minutes an!
10 seconds behind Jack Ashcraft' s
Esprit of Ammonia" when he left
Fargo, he made up that lost time
the flight here.
After the planes of C. w. Meyers
and Leslie Miller landed at the ficld
Tuesday afternoon, spectators hac
long wait until Plane No. 30
piloted by James S. Charles Of
Richmond, Va, landed at 4:55:1(
p. m. Charles took off at 5:01:39
He said a broken gas pipe hao
delayed him at Fargo. He took Of
from Fargo at 2:39:25, having land
ed at 2:12 p. m.
Plane No. SO, piloted by W. H
Emery, Jr., Bradford, Pa, landed a
5:O8:1O and left at 5:15:45. He hat
hoped Oft from Fargo at 2:44:35
Plane No. 60 arrived at exactly 81!
p. m. and left at 5:23:35. 1t wa
piloted by E. G. Knapp Of Ypsilanti
Mic He had left Fargo at 2:49:4j
Plane No. AZ, piloted by Eugene bet
mer of Tarrytown, N. Y, arrived a
5:22:20 p. m. and left at 5:2S:24
having hoped off from F a
3:O8:06.
1.-THE best service of any poin
along the route" was the common
Of derby aviators at the speed wit
which their planes were refuele
here. Most of the flyers ha
thought that Cleveland, where on
plane was serviced in four minute
and 20 seconds, held the service rec
ord, but at Bismarck one plane wa
serviced in three minutes and 20 sec
onds, and number of others frol
three minutes and "a seconds t
three minutes and 30 seconds.
Credit for the speed at whic
planes were serviced was given tn
oil companies on the field and
o. w. Roberts and his assistant
in charge Of the derby at this poin
who kept things running smooth.
Cars were lined all the way alon
the roads fronting on the field, an
many hundreds of aviation far
watched the planes arrive and d'
part. An impromptu "hot dog
stand, started by several Standar
Oil company employees, did a rusl
ing business.
i The Standard Oil company ha
five trucks and % men on the fiel
while the Texas Oil company ha
two trucks and nine men. Of : tt