The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-10-26
YANKEE DOODLE
HAS MONOPOLY
ON AIR RECORDS
East.to-West Nonstop Hop
Across Continent Is "a
Hours, 50 Minutes
HOLDS WEST.EAST MARK
Fleet Monoplane Won Decisive
Victory Over Adverse Winds
and Dense Fog
HOLDS WEST.EAsT MARK

Los Angeles, Oct. 26.-(AP)-A
monopoly on transcontinental nom
stop air records was held by Harry
fuckers trim little Lockheed- Vega
lmonoplane yankee Doodle" today,
following the planes successful
flight from New York which ended
at Mines field here yesterday after
noon.
The "Yankee Doodle" with Cap
tain C. B. D.. Collyer, co-holder Of
the around-the-world travel record,
lat the controls and Tucker in the
passenger seat set Z new eaSt-to-
west nonstop record Of "a hours, 81
mintues when it came to earth. The
previous record Of 26 hours, 80 min
utes was made in 1923 by Lieu
tenants John MacReady and Oakley
Kelley.
With Art Goebel, Pacific flyer, 1t
the controls and Tucker aboard the
cigar shaped craft flashed to IN
astonishing west-to-east record Of
l18 hours, IS minutes Z few weeks
ago. The flight was from Los An
geles to New York, and the flyers
later announced q new and shorter
route had been discovered, which,
with a brisk wind at the ships tail,
accounted for the fast time.
Flight Course Same
The course Of both flights lay
over McKeesport, Pa. Columbus,
indianapolis, Terre Haute, Ind,
Wichita, Albuquerque and through
the San Bernardino Mountain pass.
The west-east flight was the only
successful nonstop hop ever made,
while yesterdays flight was the Sec
ond nonstop flight westward across
the continent.
The latest successful flight for
the fleet little monoplane Was de-
cisive victory over adverse wind,
for and rain above the Alleghentes
and again over the Rocky Mountains
that threatened to send It down
short of gasoline before the goal
was sighted.
The "Yankee Doodle" after sue
cessfully battling the head winds Of
the Alleghenies in September was
forced down at Prescott, Arizona.
when the western winds wasted
AWAY the ships gasoline supply.
At that time the plane was racing
westward in the transcontinental
nonstop derby of the national air
races, held here.
Run Into Fog
1--WE left with 525 gallons Of gas
This time,' Tucker said. I'm flying
over the Allegheny Mountains near
Bellefonte, Pa, we ran into the
worst fog I ever seen, and have
! flown q lot. We couldn't see the
wing tips. We had to work around
Ind try another pass through, and
I'VE lost an hour. We could have
made it in "a hours in spite Of the
headwinds If it hadn't been for that
"When we started through San
Bernardino Pass, knew we were
hll right and it was as good - over. =
The pass is a cleft in the San Ber.
hardino Mountains, the last range
before the flyers slipped into Loa
Angeles.
Had Fuel Left
Collyer estimated that he had
enough fuel for 80 minutes more
IN the air when the ship landed.
There were no jagged rents in the
planes fuselage this time, mol
broken windows, ~ there had beer
when the ship landed on Mines field
lin the derby flight. Tucker, ID
feeding extra fuel to the motor il
the September dash, attempted Il
throw gasoline cans out Of the shir
with almost disastrous results. u.
When he climbe' from, the plane
Yesterday he exhibited . pair Of tin
Ihears and stack Of tin strips b.
hind his cockpit seat. Instead o1
throwing cans out, he had cut them