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[[image]] Wins Aerial Honor Laura Ingalls receiving from Joseph Kinney of the Department of Commerce, papers rating her as scheduled airline transport pilot—the first women ever to be given this coveted distinction. Air Plans May Be Told Soon [[image]] Laura Ingalls is inspecting her new Lockheed Orion plane in which, it is reported, she shortly will take off on a new spectacular flight. She was noncommittal yesterday but indicated she may announce her plans next week. LAURA INGALLS PREPARES FOR SPECTACULAR FLIGHT That plane possibly to be seen cruising above the city today may shortly be the subject of glaring headlines in all the papers of the world. Laura Ingalls, opera singer-aviatrix, admitted as much yesterday when she said she may have "something interesting to tell next Tuesday" about the new Lockheed Orion plane just constructed for her. With a gasoline capacity of 630 gallons, the plane, it is said, is capable of smashing all existing long-distance nonstop records of men flyers as well as women. The sleek black mystery ship has a cruising speed of 205 miles an hour and a top speed of 225. Without refueling it is capable of sustaining flight for twenty hours. Quick take-off with heavy load and efficient cruising performance at high altitudes are provided by a supercharged 550-horsepower Wasp engine equipped with a Hamilton controllable pitch propeller. Long-distance flight equipment includes a new type combination radio report receiver and radio compass with a Sperry automatic pilot. Los Angeles Examiner . . . . A Paper for People W Sep-7-34 Sponsor Comprehensive Program AVIATRICES AND ROUTE [[3 images]] Laura Ingalls Jacqueline Cochran Mrs. Louise Thaden [[image: map of route, with five stops in speed race - London - Bagdad - Allahabad -Singapore - Port Darwin - Charleville - Melbourne. 64 Pilots entered the in London-Melbourne Air Race. First Prizes of $50,000 and $10,000.]] [[3 images]] Ruth Nichols Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller Amy Mollison Stops in England-Australia air race, shown in map by Examiner artist. [[image]] MISS INGALLS AND POST INSPECT HER SHIP Laura Ingalls, noted aviatrix, yesterday proudly exhibited to Wiley Post, sub-stratosphere trail blazer, the new airplane that she is preparing for some unannounced adventure. 64 AIR RACERS IN ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA HOP Eighteen American Pilots Will Compete; 6 Women of World Fame as Flyers Also Listed LONDON, Sept. 6—Hatfield, Airport, 18 miles northwest of London, has been selected as the starting point of the England-Australia air race, for which sixty-four pilots, including eighteen from the United States, have entered. Competitors will make a mass start at 6:30 a. m., Saturday, October 20. Competitors in the speed race for which a first prize of $50,000 is offered, will be required to land only at five places en route: Bagdad, Allahabad, Singapore, Port Darwin, and Charleville, Australia. Six women are among the pilots of international fame who have entered for the contest, four of whom are American and two British. Ruth Nichols of Rye, N. Y., and Laura Ingalls of Beechurst, L. A. are flying their own machines and two others, Jacqueline Cochran of New York and Mrs. Louise Thaden of Kansas City, Mo., will be accompanied by male pilots or copilots. The two British women competing will be Mrs. James Mollison who will accompany her [[famous?]] husband, and Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller, both well known to American flying circles. [[left side covered]] on Dash Plan ion on the plans which Laura Ingalls, aviatrix, may have distance flight grew to- ery on a new speed plane Lockheed factory at Bur- ship, an Orion mono- resemble, when it is in two weeks, the Lady Cross in which Sir Charles [[/left side covered]] Kingsford-Smith spanned the Pacific. Its gasoline capacity will make long distance flights possible. Miss Ingalls, who flew solo last spring on a 17,000 mile jaunt from New York to Mexico, down across the Andes in South America, and back to New York via Florida, declined to tell her present plans. [[top cut off]] [[image]] Laura Ingalls aviatrix, refused to answer yesterday when she appeared here to complete delivery arrangements at the factory on her Lockheed Orion monoplane. Well on the way to a promising vocal career she turned to aviation and a signal triumph last spring was her reward. The feat was her 17,000-mile solo sky ride from New York to Mexico, across the rugged Andes, around South America to Cuba, Miami and back to New York. Her new ship is of the same construction as Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith's Lady Southern Cross, except for the cockpit arrangement and fuselage. Her Orion is being built behind locked doors at the Burbank plant, the manufacturers averring it is to be the fastest of commercial type planes. "I'm not saying just what my future plans are," Miss Ingalls said at the Los Angeles Municipal Airport. She flew there in a new Electra which was to undergo Department of Commerce tests.
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