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AERIAL AGE WEEKLY

G. DOUGLAS WARDROP 
Managing Editor

RALPH E. de CASTRO
Associate Editor

GEO. F. McLAUGHLIN
Technical Editor

G. A. CAVANAGH
HARRY SCHULTZ
Model Editors

HENRY WOODHOUSE
Contributing Editor

NEIL MacCOULL, M.E.

WALTER H. PHIPPS

FELIX PAWLOWSKI (Instructor in Aeronautics University of Michigan)

Contributing Technical Editors

PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE AERIAL AGE CO., Inc., Foster Building, Madison Avenue and Fortieth Street, New York City

Entered as Second-Class Matter, March 25, 1915, at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879

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VOL. IV  NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 27, 1916  No. 11

MISS RUTH LAW NOW HOLDS AMERICAN NON-STOP CROSS COUNTRY RECORD, AND WORLD CROSS-COUNTRY RECORD FOR WOMEN

The American non-stop cross country record, the world record for women and the second best world cross country non-stop record are now held by Miss Ruth Bancroft Law, who flew from Chicago to New York on November 19-20.

She left Chicago on Sunday morning at 8:25 a.m., Eastern time, cheered by the people who had gathered at Grant Park, and her aeroplane, being loaded to its fullest capacity, climbed sluggishly and battled with the varying wind currents which came across and over the buildings on the lake front. There was at the time a southwest wind of about 26 miles an hour which soon died out and there was almost no wind thereafter. She had mapped her course and had her chart mounted on rollers in a case, the case being strapped to her belt and to the guard of the seat. She had gone over the course to be followed with Lieut. J. A. McAleer, of the Hydrographic Survey Office of Chicago, and then had traced the route herself on the chart, noting on the chart the compass directions of her flight, which directions she summarized on the cuff of the gauntlet. These notations read as follows: Gary, 227 miles, S. 88° E.; Port Clinton, 21 miles, S. 69° E.; Huron, 44 1/2 miles, N. 63° E.; Erie, 83 1/2 miles, S. 84° E,; Hornell, 48 miles, S. 60° E.: Elmira, 45 miles, S. 81° E.; Binghamton, 81 miles, S. 42° E.; Port Jervis, 33 miles, S. 50° E,; Suffern, 32 miles, South to New York.

Following her directions, she passed Cleveland, flying at a height of about 6,000 feet, and went on and passed Erie at a height of 3,000 feet. She soon passed Olean and flew to Hornell, New York, where she landed at 2:10 p.m., having covered the distance of 590 miles, breaking the American cross-country non-stop record made by Victor Carlstrom on November 2nd, bettering Victor Carlstrom's non-stop distance record from Chicago to Erie by 138 miles. She left Hornell at 3:24 p.m. and flew to Binghamton, 90 miles away, where she arrived at 4.20 p.m.

She passed the night at Binghampton and started again on her flight to New York Monday morning at 7:23. It was foggy when she started from Binghampton and all the way to New York she had to fly at a height varying from 500 to 2,500 feet, coming lower from time to time to get out of the low-lying clouds. The distance from Binghampton to New York is 152 miles in a straight line and about twenty miles more by the way Miss Law followed. She covered this distance in two hours and 14 minutes and 35 seconds. 

Miss Law arrived at Governor's Island at 9:37:35, and was met by Army and Aero Club authorities, including Major General Leonard Wood, Major Carl F. Hartmann, Signal Corps; Alan R. Hawley, President of the Aero Club of America; Every Jansen Wendell, Henry Woodhouse and Charles Jerome Edwards, members of the Board of Governors of the Club, Augustus Post and other aeronautic authorities, including G. Douglas Wardrop, editor of AERIAL AGE, for whom Miss Law had a letter sent by Mr. A. W. Scott of Chicago, and carried by her together with other mail which included a letter addressed to David Belasco and a letter to Mr. W. J. Bemish, Secretary of the Roatry Club of New York, sent to him by Mr. James G. Brownlow, President of the Rotary Club of Binghamton.

"If the weather man had made good his promise," were Miss Law's first remarks after she had been congratulated by the Club and Army authorities,"and had supplied the gale which he predicted, I would have arrived in New York from Chicago last night. I would also have made better time from Binghamton to New York this morning."

Mr. Mitchell, the weather man at Chicago, to whom Miss Law confided her plan to fly from Chicago to New York, advised her that Sunday would be a good day on which to start and that there would probably be a wind of over fifty miles and hour. His prediction held true in so far as Chicago was concerned. She met a gale when she rose from Grant Park, Chicago, and for about twenty miles beyond Chicago. Beyond that, greatly to her disappointment, the gale subsided and she had to continue her flight, very much to her disgust, in calm, windless weather, which upset her calculation in so far as the speed which her light aeroplane could make from Chicago to New York. 

After the Army and Aero Club of America authorities, and representatives of the press who were at the aviation field at Governor's Island to receive her, had congratulated her, she went to the home of Mrs. Carl F. Hartmann, on the Island where she breakfasted and was interviewed by the press representatives. 

It was a surprise to everybody to find that the aeroplane used to make this record-breaking flight was the small loop-the-loop Curtiss biplane with the propeller in the rear which she had build especially for herself on the old model last 

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