Evening star., 1933-01-01

record for women Of IT hours, SO
minutes. 40 seconds: the National
glider meet at Elmira, N. Y, brought
about the repeated establishment Of
new glider distance records, the best OF
the series being rs miles from Elmira
to Tlinkhannock, Pa; Capt. Wolf
gang Won Gronau started his notable
flight around the world and completed
his third flight across the Atlantic.
Augusts
Air express service became an estab-
lished industry with the setting up Of
a national interline system which since
has resulted in continuous and heavy
increase in express traffic by air; the
Washington Air Derby Association was
organized to promote aviation in the
National Capital; Pan-American Air
ways purchased Alaskan Always, ex-
tending its international lines from the
Arctic Circle to the southern end Of
South America; j. A. Mollison made the
first East to West solo flight across the
Atlantic, from Portmarnock, Irish Free
State, to Pennsf1eld Ridge, New Bruins
wick; Prof. AugusLe Picard and Max
Cosyns made o stratosphere flight to
salts feet, the greatest altitude ever
reached by man: the National Sweep
stakes Air Derby started from WASH
ington as the opening event of the Ma
tional AR Races; Frances Marsalis and
Louise Thaden set new woman's world
endurance record of 1876 hours; three
transatlantic flights were started in one
day, ending In crashes, two without
fatalities; Amelia Earhart Putnam made
the first woman's nonstop flight across
the United States, establishing q new
speed record for women Of 19 hours 4
minutes seconds, and q new world dis
tance record for women Of 2,435 miles;
the transcontinental speed record was
broken twice in one day, Jimmy Haiz-
lip winning the Bendix race and con-
tinuing to New York in an elapsed time
from Los Angeles to New York of 10
hours 10 minutes AZ seconds; Won Gro
nau started his flight across the Pa
cif1c from Alaska.
September.
James H. Doolittle set a new world
speed record for land planes, averaging
296.287 miles per hour over four laps Of
an official 3-kilometer course at Cleve-
land Won Gronau reached Japan on his
world flight; Mrs. Mae Haizlip estab-
hshed a new world speed record for
women of 252.513 miles per hour at
Cleveland; Pan-American Airways COM
pleted the consolidation of all American
tinental United States: an unsuccessful
japanese effort to fly the Pacific began;
the Hutchinson family was rescued after
forced landing off the coast of Green
land the monoplane American Nurse,
with three aboard, took off on a flight
from the United States to Rome and
was lost at sea; Flight Lieut.. Cyril Twins,
Great Britain, established a new world
altitude record of 43,976 feet; Lieut..
Comdr. Thomas C. w. Settle, u. s. N,
won the international balloon race by
flying 900 miles from Basic, Switzer-
land, to Wilma, near the Polish-Latvian
border, establishing new world balloon
distance record and giving the United
States permanent possession of the
Gordon Bennett Trophy; Won Gronau
flew to the Philippines on his world trip.
October.
James r. Weddell flew from Ottawa,
Canada, to washington, to Mexico City
IN IL hours, Sc minutes, breaking the
Doolittle "three-capital' record OF Ia
hours SO minutes; Won Gronau COM
pleted his flight around the world-a
pioneering effort supposedly made with
view to establishment by the German
Lufthansa of ocean air transport serv-
ice.
November
Roscoe Turner few from New York
to Los Angeles in u hours 80 minutes,
setting new East-to- West transconti-
mental speed record: Amy Johnson, in
magnificent flight from London to
Cape Town. Africa, smashed the record
made In March by her husband, j. A.
Mollison.
December.
Pan-American Airways announced the
signing OF contracts for giant four
motored planes capable Of ocean trans
port service; DR.. Hugo Eckener, fol-
lowing the successful season of the vet
eran Graf Zeppelin, announced plans
for establishment Of regular airship
service between Germany and Brazil.