Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-12
ENDURANCE PLANE
PILOTS PASS 242
HOURS OF FLIGHT
1.-TWO Tough Hombres" Ap-
pear Ready to Continue
Test Indefinitely.
AvIATORS REFRESHED
AFTER BATHING IN AIR
Culver City Hop Becoming "Show-
down Between Motor
Power and Men.
Rv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CULVER CITY, Calf, July 18th,
two tough hombres" and their second
day. At 9:29:30 am. they were il
242nd hour aloft and ground observer
looked in vain for signs that the rec
ordbreaking flight would end soon.
Freshened late yesterday by bath
their first since leaving the ground Jul!
2-Pilots L. w. Mendell and r. B
Reinhart were reported to be in "ver,
good spirits
The degree Of isolation afforded BY
their flight provided insufficient privacy
for them to take a bath without cur.
tains for the cabin windows, 1t was re-
vealed in note from Mendell, which
said:
Tried to take a bath, but four air.
planes flew by and had to quit
"Spick and Span"
Slade Hubert of the refueling shil
said after last evenings reloading o.
the endurance planes fuel tanks, thai
both men were "slicked up spick anc
span" The window curtains had beer
supplied when their supper, principally
fried chicken, was sent up.
Chicken sure was good and much
enjoyed" said another note.
The flyers seemed bent on setting &
record that would discourage Other
seekers of the endurance honors.
They passed the previous mark oi
174 hours SO seconds Tuesday afternoon
Since yesterday morning however. they
have been sticking close to the airport
probably because of the N. A. A. re-
quirement that, to make an official rec
ord a plane must land at the airport
from which it takes of.
Covered 1880 miles.
nights of circIing the flyers have GOV.
cred about 1880 miles
Discovery was made last night that
Paul Whittier. one of the hackers of the
flight and pilot of the refueling plane
is a millionaire pilot" A son of the
late Max B. Whittier, Southern Califor-
MIA oil magnate. he is many times a
millionaire by inheritance. He flies fol
"the love of it,
The millionaire pilot" commented
yesterday that "Mendell and Reinhart
stayed up so long had birthday" Il
was Whittier's twenty-fifth yesterday.
A. e. McNanus, partner with Whittier
and w. G. McAdoo, 1r., in the Culver
City Airport, was a lieutenant in the
Royal Air Corps during the World War
He is we'll known in Toronto, Canada
He praised the military training re-
ceived by Mendell and Reinhart as
playing large part in their success.
Ask for Third Door.
While notes Of yesterday told of 6
motor grown noisy through its severe
test, a message dropped this morning
made no mention of the condition O.
the plane or the pilots who manned
it. All 1t asked for was more fuel tc
permit them to press on and on, ano
a sliding door of composition glass tc
fit in the cabin of the ship. 1t was
the second time they had occasion tC
ask for a sliding door. Two of these
doors have been lost in the monotonou!
flight.
In their battle to outwear the mech.
anism that carried them farther anc
farther on their aerial conquest, the
pilots asked no quarter. 1t seemed
that as the hours slipped by they were
displaying as much iron as the tenaciou!
motor.
There were many elements of chance
which might suddenly terminate tht
flight. Favorable weather conditions
continued to prevail as daylight came