The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-11
ATLANTIC HAS
Been SPAWNED
BY So PLANES
81 Flights Were Nonstop,
Lindbergh'S Thirteenth,
Aero Digest Recalls.
Aviation.
BY ERNIE PYLE
SoripDs-Howard Aviation Editor

ocTlpps-EoWard Aviation Editor
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1l.-So far
there have been sixty-three fights
across the Atlantic ocean.
Fifty-one Of them were nonstop.
-. Lindbergh's was the thirteenth
crossing and the fifth non-top.
The first successful flight across was
by the navy NC-4 boat in 1919.
The magazine Aero Digest has
compiled a complete history Of all
ocean flights.
The American air mail system, at
present, consists mostly of trunk
lines, and only the larger cities are
served. :. Representative CLYDE
Kelly RepY Pa hopes to remedy
this situation by setting up a
myriad Of short feeder" lines, run
ming through small communities all
over the nation. He will ask
congress to help. Kelly is sold
on the automatic air mail pickup
====.ce for these routes.
The San Francisco Bay Airdrome
has 102 arrivals and departures of
scheduled planes every day. E. a..
Tony Fokker, the famous plane de-
signer who fought with the COM
merce department after the Rockne
crash, is now in China. CIar-
ence Chamberlin, New York-to-G Ger
many f1ier, is selling real estate in
New York and getting fat.
Signalmen Have Lonely Jobs
The lighthouse keepers of the
Always" lead lonely lives. They
tend the emergency fields along the
nations aerial highways. There
are 351 Of them. Some are at
fields so isolated they don't see a
human for weeks. Even on the
New York-San Francisco transcon-
tinental airway, there are ISL lonely
field, tenders.
William E. Lee, high school boy
of Alexandria, Va, has built a model
airplane for the King Of England.
. 1t is an 11-inch model of the
Schneider cup racers. -. Cost him
SO and three weeks work. The
British embassy here will send it
to King George.
Pilot Arthur Lybarger, who flies
the high-speed passenger plane of
Continental Anyways into Washing
ton from Chicago, always sends his
wife a telegram as soon as he ar
rives. -.
I. &. w. A. Grows Stern
Leland Jameson, who flies the
night air mail between Richmond
and Atlanta for Eastern Air Trans
port, writes air fiction stories on
the side And sells them to the
magazines, too, lot of them.
Mrs. Clifford Ball, wife of the
general manager of Pennsylvania
Airlines washington Cleveland,
is a pilot owns her own plane ana
recently flew across the mountains
from Pittsburgh to Washington
without losing her way once.
On the way back her scarf blew off
five miles out of Washington.
But it caught on the tail, the wind
held it there, and the scarf had
20O-mile open-air ride to Pitts
b. rgh.
&. division superintendent of 7.
! w. A. New York-Los Angeles)
rode on a plane without issuing
himself pass. Both he and
the pilot Who carried him were
warned it meal4t their jobs II Oaey
ever did it again. That was
to impress upon thela The impor-
lance of having a record of every
passenger on every plane before it
leaves the ground. Airlines are
getting buSinesSlike.
Drives 20 Miles to Work
George Haldeman, the man who
few Ruth Elder nearly across the
Atlantic, has resigned as test pilot
for the Bellanca people, to organize
a new aviation department for the
Fidelity Investment Company of
Wheeling, w. Va. The banking firm
now has two planes, and will get
more soon, to haul bank directors
from one place to another.
Pilot Serene Jacob, veteran of the
Lafayette Escadrille, flies for East
ern Air Transport out of Newark,
N. j. e.. But he lives in Ridgef1eld,
Conn, and twice a day drives the
seventy eight miles to the airport.
Pacific Air Transport (Seattle-San
Diego gives away short-wave radio
sets to farmers and mountaineers
along the route, so they can hear
radio conversations between planes
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