Evening star., 1929-06-29
HAWKS SETS THREE
RECORDS ON FLIGHT.
Flyer Makes Coast. to-Coast
Round Trip in SO Hours
and 46 Minutes. -,
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LciatAd PrAss-

BY the Associated Press.
ROOSEVELT FIELD, N Y, juno
29.-Hisa WEAKNESS forgotten IN the JOY
of success, Capt Frank M. Hawkes. COM:
pleted y nonstop flight from Los An
geles at 1s16:o3 am, daylight time to-
day, establishing a one-stop round-trip
coast-to-coast record of 36 hours IS /,
minutes 48 seconds flying time
Spectators were given a momentary
alarm when in landing his plane darted.
across the field and struck a. fence, dann-s
aging its undercarriage and fuseTage.
Hawks was. unniured and climbed out
of the plane to be cheered by a group Of
admirers. He was kissed by his wife.
He had taken off from Roosevelt Field
on Thursday in an attempt to establish
three records and succeeded in each
case.
Coast in 19 hours 10 minutes and 90
seconds, breaking the record of "a hours
and 81 minutes established. last year by
he late Capt. c. B. d. Collyer and Harry
Tucker.
Detained by Repairs.
Although he had planned to remains
Ah 41Oo 1AABCICo OLllJ 1OAlS cAAOukO W
fuel. he was detained hours and II,
minutes by needed repairs to the planes,
stabilizer and carburetor. = -s-
Taking OF. from Los Angeles at.
3:37:47 am. Pacific tiTne) yesterday,
morning. he brought his plane down
again on Roosevelt Field II hours SO
minutes and 16 seconds later to break
the record of 18 hours 81 minutes and
SO seconds he established last year.
had hnnad IN lga "A kxira
in 36 hours of actual flying time, but
was delayed on the West-to-E East trip by
headwinds. His elapsed time for the /,
round trip was A hours and 40 seconds
He. was completely deaf when he
emerged from the open cockpit of his.
plane and looked haggard. He said he ],
mad suffered no Ill effects on the trip.
but after landing reaction set in and
he departed Immediately for his home
IN New York to spend the rest of the
night in sleep,
Speed Estimated at 152.
In appearance, however, he was i'm
maculate He made the round-tfip,
flight in white trousers and a blue coat
and even the trousers appeared to have
suffered no Ill effects from the arduous
trip. :
1t was estimated that the route he.
followed wasc2 800 miles one way, which
would give him an estimated speed for
the round trip of slightly more than l52
has always been made In less time than
the westward.
Capt. Hawks is 80 years old and a
resident of New York. He started his
career in the Army, and after learning
to ny was an instructor In the Army
Air Service for two years. He later be-
came an air mail pilot and followed
this hU civ nf Hx,tr,r ID.
where he transported pay rolls by air
for an oil company.
A thousand or more persons were at.
the field awaiting his arrival when the
plane appeared overhead, He circled
the field twice and then dropped in
slowly, barely skimming the treetops.
After the wheels had touched the
TAXED several hundred feet. Seeing
that he was too far down the field and
heading for a wire fence, he speeded
upin an attempt to jump, but Che plane.
came down straddlipg the fence.
Hawks clambered out Of the plane,
smiling, aud appeared sundistarbed by
his narrow escape.
''It's just too bad" he said. Z
One OF the first to reach his side was
his wife, who had been waiting at the
field for hours She said she had not
been worried while he was flying across
the country as he did Il before and
could do 1t again, but said her heart was
in her throat when she saw the plane
so intp the fence
Hawks said he had excellent weather
and good visibility over most of the trip.
There was q little fog over Pennsyis>
vania, he said. and east of Columbus
he had TO fight headwinds. HIS radio
functioned perfectly throughout the
fight. and he was able to get weather
reports regularly.