Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-30
Great Progress Made Since
Lindy's EpoChaI Flight
Over Atlantic.
RECORDS SHATTERED
DURING SHORT SPAN
Fahy Sets Solo Endurance Mark
at 81 Hours in Latest
Aerial Achievement.
BY the A5Soriated Press

BY the Associated Press
Maytime and two airplanes poised
with their noses headed toward the
Atlantic has recalled another MAY
morning two years ago when the Lone
Eagle set out over the same vast
stretch of water and ushered in a new
era of mans conquest of the air.
The airplanes, Green Flash and yell
low Bird, which now are waiting for
favorable weather on the Maine coast
to head into the air for Europe. are
ready for an attempt like the epoch
making flight of Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh, to record new aerial
achievement-a transatlantic air race.
May Race Over Atlantic.
The Green Flash. manned by two
Americans, is headed for Rome. and the
Yellow Bird, piloted by French flyers.
for Paris. If the hopes of their crews
are realized the two planes will race
over the ocean to Europe.
And so in the span of "a months the
picture has changed from the fight of
lone pilot to prospective race over
the uncharted air lanes, and this is but
part of the advancement aviation has
made since that memorable feat of
Lindbergh two years ago.
In the first half of this year a new
f1eld besides the spectacular feats of
flights across oceans and into the ice
bound polar regions has been opened
in aViation-the refueling of planes
1n 1ir rtt0
refueling, by which airplanes have
stayed a1oft for days. have been con-
Quoted and aviation authorities regarded
them as pointing the way toward un-
interrupted flights over long distances
and of far-reaching effect in the
progress of flying.
Civilian Flyers Set Records.
A few days ago two civilian aviators
in theiz single-motored monoplane, the
Fort Worth, remained in the air nearly
eight dayS-172 hours and 80 minutes,
over that Texas city to set new en-
durance flying record. The Texas avia-
tors broke refueling endurance mark
which had been established in the first
month of this year by the Army tri-
motored monoplane the Question Marx
at Los Angeles. The Question Mark
flew $50 hours and 40 minutes.
Four other aviation records have fall
en- by the wayside in the past few
weeks. Lieut.. Apollo Soucek of the
Navy established a new world altitude
record of 80, 140 feet, while Miss Mar
vel Crosson of San Diego reached a
height of $4,000 feet for the unof1cial
women's altitude mark last Tuesday
At East st. Louis another altitude
record was established for light planes,
Barney Zimmerly of Marshall, Mo-
reaching height OF 24,600 feet on the
same Tuesday.
Late yesterday at Los Angeles. Her.
bert J. Fahy. broke the solo fight en-
durance record. by keeping his airplane
aloft 36 hours Sc minutes and 36 sec
onds without refueling.
. 200 May Cross Ocean.
A record number of persons-approxi-
mately 700-wll cross the Atlantic by
air this Summer if contemplated flights
are carried out. The Graf Zeppelin,
the German dirigible, which carries IS
passengers, probably will engage in sew
eral transoceanic crossings despite its
recent failure to make that flight be-
cause of engine trouble.
The British dirigible R-100 with
crew and passenger list of $50, plans
to Canada. About 25 flyers
will occupy airplanes if flights planned
by German, italian. Swedish and Polish
aviators from Europe to this country
are accomplished, besides the trips of
the Green Flash and the Yellow Bird.
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