The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-05
FLYER WHO VISITED BISMARCK
BREAKS NONSTOP FLIGHT MARX
Captain Frank Hawks Skaters
the Transcontinental Hop
Record Of Art coebel
AVERAGED las MILES HOUR
Ship Resembling lIl-Fated YAM
kee Doodle Flies From Coast
to Coast in 10 Hours

Captain Frank M. Hawks who
thrilled Bismarck people last summer
when he flew q giant tri-motored, all
metal monoplane into the city, today
set new nonstop transcontinental
flight record.
Captain Hawks flew from Los An
geleS to New York city in l8 hours.
% minutes and 81 seconds breaking
Colonel Arthur Goebels old record Of
Ii hours and So minutes, according
to an Associated Press dispatch.
Like the famous Dole flight win
ner. Hawks flew a similar Lockheed
plane.
Captain Hawks had been expected
to land at Curtiss field and large
crowd was waiting for him there. His
cigar-shaped monoplane flashed over
Curtiss field, however, and landed at
Roosevelt field q mile away.
Accompanied by Oscar E. Grubb,
q mechanic. Captain Hawks hoped
from Metropolitan airport at Los An
geles at 5:37:30 p. m. yesterday. He
hoped to clip three hours off the
mark set by Goebel in the ill-fated
Yankee Doodle.
Goebel carried the late Harry Tuck
er Of Santa Monica. Calf, as q pass
enger on his record crashing Jump.
Goebel Is now planning for refuel-
ing nonstop flight around the world.
Los Angeles, Feb. 5.-(P)-That sell
dom-realized project Of aviation, a
nonstop flight from coast to coast, was
the goal today Of Captain Frank M.
Hawks Of Houston, Tex, who hopes
to shatter the transcontinental record
IN . flight from Los Angeles to New
York.
Accompanied by Oscar E. Grubb, q
mechanic, Captain Hawks hopped
from Metropolitan airport at 5:37:3o
p. ~. yesterday, and presumably was
far out over the central plains this
morning. He hopes to land at Roose-
welt or Curtis field. Long Island, be-
fore noon today, thus clipping more
than three hours from the record held
by Col. Arthur Goebel and the ILL
fated Yankee Doodle.
Captain Hawks must reach New
York before 3:35 p. m. to break
Goebel's record of Is hours So min
utes, which Goebel set last August.
The Dole flight winner, now making
plans for a refueling nonstop flight
around the world, carried the late
Harry Tucker of Santa Monica, Calf,
as a passenger.
Sighted at Tucson
Flying an improved model Lockheed
ship. similar in design to the Yankee
Doodle. Hawks averaged las miles an
hour In the first leg OF his flight,
which took him over Tucson. Ariz.,
where he was sighted at eos Pacific
time last night. The plane was flying
high and the motor humming per-
fectly at that time.
The southern course chosen by the
aviator would take him over Plain
view and Childress, Tex; Muskogee,
Okla; Van Buren,. Mo-: Parker, ILL.,;
Louisville. KY: Portsmouth, O.: Nor
gantown, w. Va; and Harrisburg and
Reading, Pa. It was regarded as un-
likely that his ship would be sighted
until It neared the goal. as transcon-
tinental pilots usually select high al
tttudes and favoring winds.
The plane carried ATS gallons Of
gasoline.
Cowling Aids Speed
A new type Of motor cowling on
Hawks plane Is claimed to have in
creased the speed from 10 to 20 miles
an hour. It was reported the ship de-
veloped q speed Of $50 miles against
the wind In its tests.
At such q rate. and aided possibly
by favoring winds. 1t was regarded as
possible that Hawks might realize his
goal Of IS hours for the approximately
2,700-mile flight.
II he reaches New York without q
stop Hawks will be the second pilot
ever to make the west-to-east nom
stop flight. The Yankee Doodle
crashed In the mountains Of Arizona
last November, killing the owner,
Tucker. and the pilot, Captain G. D.
3. Collyer Of New York, co-holder of
the arQuud.the.World travel record.