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Daily News from New York, New York • 29

Publication:
Daily Newsi
Location:
New York, New York
Issue Date:
Page:
29
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DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1931 29 Come On, Folks! Fly High (Pictofially) With the Air-Minded I I 1 (NKWS photo, 1- LATEST develop- ment in Army ob- 1 1 i J- seryation biplanes I I' 1 Tl 1 I the Curtiss 0-38 t- -r-: Vl which in a test at 1 4-. i -4 -J Mitchell Field, L. Vjl I hit a speed of 176 U'V. 4 I miles per hour, 40 miles faster than A Lf'''Ai the preceding type. I rTi --1 Here (1.

to we have Flight Commander R. L. R. Atcherley, Al Williams and Casey Jones. At- i-- i cherley, assuming the role of an Oxford professor who had learned how to fly by book, entertained i i crowd with bumpy, crazy exhibition in a plane.

I IW5 14 'v I I I tByAeme) if (J I The winner of jr i the Aerol I I 1 Trophy over a .1 I I 50 mile dis- I. tv 1 I Vr tance at Cleve- VSw 11 1 land Maude I i YS Irving Tait, f' tr I I Springfield, Jl G-t society I 1 1 woman. Five 1 3 I times she I If' flashed over a Vt 4 I II 10 mile course I -Wt-'ix 4 Xrw iL-i at an average hh A) 'V '4 1 'J "1 speed of pL fTV Y-K i 574 miles an 7 All I 1 I Vi hour to win the LVr Ijci? I 1 $7,500 event fc -t She flew a red Wlr-if A vh-sw. and white low- Ki fj -y C4' (By Kctnt Congrats, Jimmy. Capt, Frank H.

Hawks (right), flew to Cleveland to ratulate Maj. James II. Doolittle, who set a new transcon tinental speed record of 11 hours and 15 minutes, breaking Hawks record 1 2 hours and 25 minutes. Now it's up to Frank to go Jimmy one better and get that record back. And he says he will winged Gee- Bee mono- Tl fX' 4 Plane," Mae IV lf 1 Haizhp of St.

1 i Louis too If Sec- fr -i 1 ond place. i By Acirw) Judge Walter B. Wanamaker (left) of Akron, American flier in the World War, met his oldtime foe, Ernst Udet at Cleveland. Udet shot him down over there. And here Udet presents the American with the insignia he cut from the letter's plane.

CREAM of the world's fliers yesterday continued to thrill crowds at Cleveland air races with marvelous Bj Am) Bert White (right) who set a new parachute jump record of feet. He's wiith his pilot, George C. Quick. The old record also made by White was 24,800 feet..

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