The Ely miner., 1929-12-27

iottetown.. Prince Edward island. after
flight OF about 900 miles. s,ss
May S-Lfeut Apollo Soucek. U. 8. n.
| ertablished new altitude record Of s9.-
May 2s--R l. Robbins and James
| Kelly made new record for airplans
endurance flight at Fort Worth. Texas
| liz hours 81 minutes second.
on In plane Yellow Bird from old Orch
ard Beach, Me-, for Paris: American
| plane Green Flash wrecked In starting
| June l4-French transatlantic flyers
landed near Comillas. Spain.
June 17-Big liner of Imperial Air
| ways fell In English channel. seven
| June 2l-;Maj. Ramon Franco and
three companions hoped off from
Spain for U. s. by way of the Azores.
and were lost in the Atlantic for a
| week.
June 27--Capt Frank Hawks made
new record OF l9 hours 10 minutes 28
seconds for nonstop fight from New
June 2S-Hiwks flew from Los An
geles to New York IN II hours ~
June 29-Franco and companions
found safe floating in their plane near
the Azores.
July 1-wilmer Stultz Amelia Ear
harts transatlantic pilot. killed In
July 5-Mitchell and Newcomb at
Cleveland set new worlds record for
refuelingg ehdurance fght-174 hours
July sawilliams and Yanoey in mon,
oplane Pathfinder hoped off at Old
| Orchard, Me, for Rome.
July civilians and Yancey landed
near Santander. Spain. out of gas.
July l0-Williams and Yancey COM
pleted flight. to Rome.
July 12-Mendell and Reinhart at
Culver City, Calf. broke all records
by remaining in air 246 hours 43 min
utes 80 seconds.
July 13-Coste and Bellonte Of
France and Idzikowski and Kubala of
Poland began flights from LIE Bourget
field, Paris for New York. The French
men turned back, and the Polish plane
crashed on Graciosa island. Azores. Id
zikowski being killed.
July 30--Dale Jackson and Forest
O,Brine in st. Louis Robin plane end
ed notwithstanding endurance flight of
420 hours 21 minutes
Aug. 1--Graf Zeppelin started from
Friedrichshafen for the United States
with 10 passengers.
Aug EGraf Zeppelin arrived at
Aug. 7-Graf Zeppelin left Lake.
hurst on trip around the world.
Aug. 1s-Graf Zeppelin arrived at
Kaesar and .uscher. young Swiss
aviators. began transatlantic flight
from Portugal
Miss Marvel Crosson, in women's air
derby, crashed in Arizona and WAS
killed
Aug. 2o-swiss aviators lost in At
lantic
Manner and Walker in Spokane Sun
God completed refueling nonstop flight
from Spokane to New York and return.
Aug. 26-Graf Zeppelin arrived at
Los Angeles.
Louise Thaden of Pittsburgh won
women's. air derby from Santa Monica
to Cleveland.
Sept. 1-Graf Zeppelin left Lake.
"a
Sept. Zeppelin arrived at Fried
Sept. Lieut.. H. R. D. waghorn
won the Schneider cup for Great Brit
ain, averaging 32S.63 miles an hour
over the 21S-mile course.
Sept 10-A H Orlebar at Calshot,
England, made record speed of 1858
miles an hour in the Schneider cup
seaplape.
Sept. 23-Col Lindbergh, accom-
panied by his wife. completed fight
from Miami to Paramaribo Dutch Gui-
ana, opening new air mail route.
Sept. 29-Coste and Bellonte landed
in Manchuria 4,S46 miles from Paris.
making record long distance flight.
Sept. 30-Fritz Won Opel Of Germany
made first flight. six miles. in rocket
plane.
Oct 22-Urban F. Diteman, Jr., of
Montana started solo flight from Har-
Dor Grace, Newfoundland, for London,
in small Barling monoplane, and was
lost
Oct 29-National air races Of 1890
awarded to Chicago.
Nov. 25-Lieut George T. Cuddihy.
at Washington
Nov 29-Commander Byrd and three
companions made airplane fight over
South pole.