Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-30
PILOTS OF ROBIN
IGNORE SPONSORS
ORDERS TO LAND
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word that the flyers were about to land
spread rapidly. Newspaper reporters
also dashed to telephones and radio an
nouncers cleared their throats to de-
scribe the long-awaited landing.
Robin Circles Low.
While all this activity was taking
place Jackson, at the controls Of the
Robin. circled low and one swoop barely
missed o movie camera man standing
on top Of truck.
Then some one read second mes
sage in tube that had been dropped.
It read: Don't forget to read on the
bottom Of the first one. We are going
to land sometime. Ha! Hal"
WaSSall looked more closely at the
first message and saw the word some
time" written in fold in the paper.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his
wife stopped at Lambert-St. Louis Field
son and O'Brine. The Lindbergh's were
flying from Santa Fe, N. Mex, to New
York City.
I'VE just dropped in to congratulate
the boys" Col. Lindbergh said, leaning
from the open window of his cabin
plane. IT'S a wonderful thing they're
doing. I'm glad we got here while they
were SClil up.
They left at 11:05 am.
berghs new alongside the endurance
plane and rocked their wings in greet
ings.
Col. Lindbergh said the motor Of the
endurance plane sounded fine" The
famous flyer cut the motor Of his own
plane and dived before landing. in or
der to better hear the beat Of the other
engine.
During his brief visit Col Lindbergh
met the wives of the endurance flyers
and Jackson's mother. Mrs. Henry
Jackson of Farribault, MINI.
Earnings of the flyers were past the
$4,000 mark today. The Robins rec
ord aggregates more than the combined
total Of the most recent endurance
flights, that of the Angeleno and Of the
first of 1929, the Question Mark.
In q note dropped late yesterday or
dering the nights gasoline supply.
OBrine told Of crap game"-6,5 500
feet, and revealed the optimism Of the
pilots was undimmed. It read:
1T see a nice crowd waiting down be-
low for us to land. Well, we are sure
sorry, but as far as we know. we will
them to 60 home and we will notify
them when we get ready to land.
RED has gone into the wood-cutting
business, I believe. It sounds like a
bucksaw. He just had nightmare and
when he woke up he was singing I
wonder what's become Of Sally, that
old gal of mine (Jackson's wife is
named SallyD
1--WE had a crap game up here this
morning and broke him. got both
nickels. We have been flying at $500
feet. We sure find it nice up here. It's
so smooth"
Learn of Lambert Crash.
jackson and O'Brine learned at the
second refueling last night Of the death
of George Lea Lambert. vice president
Of the Won Hoffman Aircraft Corpora
ton, and with more than 1000 hours
to his credit. in q crash near the field
yesterday. Both endurance flyers were
friends Of Lambert, whose father, Maj.
Albert Bond Lambert, is ofdcial OBJ
server Of the Robins flight.
The flyers received note from Capt.
Eddie v. Rickenbacker, who was here
yesterday, in which he lauded their
flight as one which will aid the air
service Of the near future by doing
away with the fear of motor stopping
in the air and by proving the use Of re-
u. ak~w- AARRINA