Evening star., 1928-12-23

1920.
February 27-Maj. Schroeder set an
altitude record of 36,020 feet.
June 4-Lieuts. Bossoutrol and Ber-
nard, at Etampes, France, set duration
record of "a hours 19 minutes and
seconds.
July 15-New York-Alaska fight
headed by Capt. ST. Clair STREET.; four
land planes Distance, $500 miles.
Time, 81 flying days.
November 25 - The first Pulitzer
trophy race. at Mitchell Field, was won
by Capt c. G. Mosely with speed OF
173 miles per hour.
1921.
April Mime. Adrienne Bolland,
French, crossed the Andes from Ar
gentina to Chile, hours and minutes.
September 28-Altitude records broken
by Lieut.. John A. Macready, 40,6OO
feet.
December 30-31-Eddie Stinson and
Lloyd Bertaud, at Roosevelt Field, es-
tablish a world duration record of 26
hours IL minutes and 35 seconds.
1922.
April 1S-The South Atlantic was
spanned by Capt. S. Cabral and Admiral
nerio, $500 miles.
october 5-6-Lieuts. Kelly and Mac
ready established duration record OF
35 hours 18 minutes and 35 second at
Rockwell Field, Calf.
1923.
April 16-17-Lieuts Kelly and Mac
ready set a new duration record OF 36
hours and minutes at Dayton, Ohio.
May 2-3-Lieuts. Kelly and Macready
crossed the continent in nonstop
flight, New York to San Diego, In 26
hours and SO minutes.
November 4-Lieut. AL j. Williams,
U. S. N, set a world speed record Of
266.59 miles per hour.
1924.
April 6-September 28-The Army
round -the-world flight. one Of the
greatest of its kind, including the first
west-bound crossing of the Pacific and
the first west-bound crossing of the At
lantic, was made by Lieuts. Lowell
Smith, Leslie B. Arnold, Erik H. Nelson
and John Harding: 1883 miles; flying
time, 371 hours and II minutes; elapsed
time, ITS days.
June 23-Lieut. Russell L. Maughan's
dawn to dusk" flight across United
States, New York to San Francisco,
2,670 miles, in 81 hours and 48 minutes.
1925.
August 31-September 1-Comdr. John
Rodgers, U. S. NJ sets new distance rec
ord of 1,730 miles in unsuccessful nom
stop fight attempt from San Francisco
to Honolulu.
August 7, 8 and 9-Droughin and
Landry, Etampes, France, set duration
record of hours, IL minutes and so
seconds.
October 27-Lieut. James A. Doolittle,
U. S. A., establishes speed record of
254.74 miles per hour.
1926.
May 9-First fight to North Pole:
Comdr. Richard E. Byrd and Floyd
Bennett; Spitzbergen to North Pole and
return in Is hours 81 minutes.
1927. ,
April IL, 13 and 14-Clarence Cham
berlin and Bert Acosta set duration rec
ord of 81 hours. IL minutes and rs
seconds.
May 2o-21-First New York-to-Paris
fight: Charles A. Lindbergh; distance,
1920 miles; time, 33 hours, 20 minutes.
June and 5-First nonstop cross
ing to Germany: Clarence D. Cham
berlin and Charles A. Levine; New
York to Eisleben, Germany; $3.50 miles,
in AZ hours.
July 2s-First nonstop anplane flight
to Hawaii: Lieuts. Lester j. Maitland
and Albert F. Hegenberger Of United
States Army Air Corps; Oakland, Calf,
to Honolulu; distance, 1880 miles; time,
Is hours, Is minutes.
August 28-William r. Schlee and
William Brock, from Detroit, Mich, to
Toxic, Japan, by air, making first air.
plane nonstop flight to England; dis
tance, 1870 miles; time, 145 hours in
air, 18 days on trip
July 25-Lieut. C. C. Champion, U.
S. NJ, sets altitude record of 38418 feet.
August 16-17-Dole race, San Fran
cisco to Honolulu, won by Art Goebel;
2407 miles.
December 13-14-Lindbergh flew non-
stop from Washington to Mexico City,
2031 miles.
March 30-Maj. Mario de Bernardo,
Italian air service. set a new world
speed record of 318 miles per hour.
April 12-13-First nonstop west
bound North Atlantic crossing: Baron
G. Won Huenefeld, Capt. Hermann
Koehl and Maj. James Fitzmaurice
German land monoplane), Ireland to
Newfoundland: 2.070 miles, in 81 hours
May 31-Fi' United States Aus
tralia flight: Capts. Charles Kings
ford Smith, Charles Ulm, Harry w.
Lyon and James Warner; Oakland,
Calf, to Brisbane, Australia, in three
hops Total distance, 1857 miles; time,
SO hours l8 minutes; nine days on trip.
June 29-Round-the-W speed rec
ord Capt. c.. B. D. Collyer, pilot, and
John Henry Mears: from New York
around world; shipping plane over At
lantic and Pacific; returned New York
90 days IS hours.
July 3-5--Flrst nonstop flight Italy
to Brazil, setting new distance record
fer airplanes: Capt. Arturo Ferrarin
and Maj Carlo P. Del Prete 1talian
landplane); distance, 4,4l7 miles; time,
81 hours SO minutes.
August 19-20-United States nonstop
West-to-East speed record: Arthur
Goebel and Harry Tucker; Los Angeles
to New York: 18 hours, So minutes.
October 25-26-Non-stop East-to-
West Coast record: Capt. c. B. D..
Collyer, pilot, and Harry Tucker; "a
hours, 81 minutes.