The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-01-09
NEW WORLD RECORD
IN AVIATION FIELD
Marks Set During 1929 in
America and Abroad.

New YOrk.-AvIators In the United
States. England, Germany and France
smashed many records In 1879. Th'r-
teen new world marks have been
placed ON the rolls of the Federation
Aeronautic Internatonale. the govern
ing body for aeronautic contests, bu
only four were for major events.
Two of these major records went to
the United States, the seaplane alti'
tude record Of 3S,560 feet by Lieut..
Apollo Soucek of the navy, and the
much broken refuelng endurance rec.
ord, finally placed ut 420 hours IL min
utes, by Dale Jackson and Forest
0'Brine Of st. Louis.
Speed Record for SespIane.
Great Britain's contribution was the
performance of Squadron Leader A. II.
Orlebar, who raised the seaplane speed
record nearly 40 miles an hour TO
357.7 miles an hour.
The fourth major record was the
land plane altitude mark of ~ ,794
feet, set by Will Neuenhofen of Ger.
many.
German avators took the lions
share of the 13 new records being
responsible for six. Three were made
in the United States and three in
France. Four Of the German records
we're the work of one man.
The nine other new records of the
year are:
Speed for 1000 kilometers-Girler
and Weiss Of France, 1862 miles an
hour.
Speed for 1000 kilometers with pay
load of 900 kilograms) -Paillard and
Campan of France. 1919 miles an
hour.
Distance, air line, light planes-D.
S. Zimmerly Marshall Mo-, Browns
vile, Texas, to Winnipeg, Canada.
1850 miles.
Speed for 100 kilometers tpay load
800 kiograms) -Ilolf Starke of Ger
many, 1851 miles an hour.
Speed for 900 kilometers (pay load
500 kilograms) Rolf Starke OF Ger
many, 1866 miles an hour.
Speed for 100 kilometers (pay load
1000 kilograms) Rolf Starke OF Ger
many, 1862 miles an hour.
Speed for 200 klometers (nay load
1000 klograms) Rolf Starke Of Ger
many, 161 ~ miles an hour.
Altitude with pay load Of 1000 kilo-
grams-pe Vaisseau Of France, 1887
feet.
Greatest pay load carried to an alti
tude of 1000 meters Steindorf Of Ger
many, 1920 pounds.
The 100 and 300 kilometer speed
marks with pay load Of 500 Kilograms
formerly were held by United States
navy flyers.
Woman Wins Honors.
One new mark has been recorded in
the recently established category for
women. II is the solo endurance mark
of Mile Maryse Bastie of France, who
stayed aloft &c hours AZ minutes 10
StNVIiuS. ith' - I'72 'Hhh''S H'hSF'
than the unofficial American record of
Miss Elinor Smith Of New York.
Besides the world record. three
|. American records were set mp rs well
as several unofficial American marks
Zimmerly supplemented his world
distance mark for light planes with an
official American light plane altitude
mark of 20,S20 feet for single seaters
Of between $40 and III pounds in
weight.
Kenneth Gale, Los Angeles, made an
altitude mark of 1922 feet for two
scatter light planes, and Lieutenant
Soucek set new American land plane
altitude record Of 1910 feet
Among the most notable OF the un.
official marks are those of Capt. Frank
Hawks--17 hours 43 minutes for a
west-to-east transcontinenta nonstop
flight, and 10 hours 10 minutes 80 sec.
onds for the east-west hop.
Airplanes in Business