Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-26
YANKEE DOODLE
TOPS AIR RECORDS
Harry fuckers MonopIane
Hops to West Coast in
~ Hours 81 Minutes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, October 26.-A
monopoly on transcontinental nonstop
air records was held by Harry fuckers
trim little Lockheed-Vega monoplane
Yankee Doodle today. following the
planes successful flight from New
York, which ended at Mines Field here
yesterday afternoon.
The Yankee Doodle, with Capt. c.
B. D. Collyer, co-holder Of the around
the-world travel record, at the controls
and Tucker in the passenger seat, set a
new East-to-West nonstop record of
"a hours 81 minutes when it came to
earth. The previous record Of 26 hours
so minutes was made in 1928 by Lieut..
John McCready and Oakley Kelley.
With Art Goebel, Pacific flyer, at the
controls and Tucker aboard the cigar
shaped craft flashed to an astonishing
West-to-East record of 1S hours 50
minutes a few weeks ago. The fight
was from Los Angeles to New York.
and the flyers later announced new
and shorter route had been discovered,
which, with a brisk wind at the ships
tail, accounted for the fast time.
McKeesport, Pa. Columbus. Indianapo-
lis, Terre Haute, Ind; Wichita, Albu-
uuerque and through the San Bernar-
dino Mountain pass.
The West-EaSt fight was the only
successful nonstop hop ever made,
while Yesterdays flight was the Sec
end nonstop fight westward across
the continent.
COnquers Elements.
The latest successful fight for the
fleet little monoplane was decisive
victory over adverse wind, fog and rain
above the AlleghenieS and again over
the Rocky Mountains that threatened
to send it down short of gasoline be-
fore the goal was sighted,
The Yankee Doodle, after success
fully battling the head winds of the
AlleghenieS IN September, was forced
down at Prescott, Ariz., when the west
ern winds wasted away the ships gaso-
line supply. At that time the plane
was racing westward in the transconti-
nentall nonstop derby Of the national
air races, held here.
we left with SIS gallons Of gas this
time" Tucker said. I'm flying over the
Allegheny Mountains near Bellefonte.
Pa. we ran into the worst fog ever
have seen, and have flown lot. We
couldn't see the wing tips. We had to
circle around and try another pass
through, and we lost an hour. We
could have made 1t in "a hours in spite
Of the headwinds if it hadn't been for
that
80 Minutes Fuel Left.
when we started through San Ber-
nardino pass knew we were all right,
and it was as good as over" The pass
is cleft in the San Bernardino Noun
tains, the last range before the flyers
slipped into Los Angeles.
Collyer estimated that he had
enough fuel for 90 minutes more in the
air when the ship landed.
There were no Jagged rents in the
p'ane's fuselage this time, nor broken
windows. as there had been when the
hip landed on Mines Field in the derby
light. Tucker, in keeping extra fuel
to the motor in the September dash.
tempted to throw gasoline cans out
4 the ship with almost disastrous re-
-.,r*=
When he climbed from the plane yes
'9relay he exhibited pair of tin shears
md stack Of tin strips behind his
cockpit seat. Instead Of throwing cans
cut. he had cut them up.
The ship left Roosevelt Field at 4:16:35
Dm. Eastern standard time Wednesday,
end came to stop here soon after .
pm. Pacific Coast time. 1t was sightcA
sc Wichita and Albuquerque,