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50 U.S. AIR SERVICES August, 1931 Hawks Brings Home from Europe an Extraordinary Log His Texaco 13 Captures Numerous Records in Less than 90 Days [[5 Columned Table]] |Date|From|To|Distance Miles|Time| |April 5|Cherbourg|Paris|210|56 mins.| |April 7|Paris|Brussels|167|1 hour 20 mins.| |April 13|Brussels|Rotterdam|72|24 mins.| |April 16|Rotterdam|Brussels|72|19 mins.| |April 17|Brussels|London|190|1 hour| |April 22|London|Rome|950|5 hours 22 mins.| |April 22|Rome|Pisa|160|58 mins.| |April 22|Pisa|Gien (France)|840|4 hour| |April 23|Gien|Paris|90|25 mins.| |April 23*|Paris|London|218|59 mins.| |April 30|London|Dublin|320|1 hour 40 mins.| |April 30|Dublin to Cork to Galaway to Dublin| |390|2 hours| |May 1|Dublin-Belfast-Manchester-Leeds| |500|2 hours 25 mins.| |May 2|London|Bristol|90|28 mins.| |May 2|Bristol|Birmingham|80|25 mins.| |May 2|Birmingham|London|95|28 mins.| |May 4|London|Paris|218|1 hour 14 mins.| |May 9|Paris (Bourget)|Douai|100|34 mins.| |May 10|Douai|Paris (Orley)|110|35 mins.| |May 11|Paris|London|218|1 hour 11 mins.| |May 12*|London|Berlin|600|2 hours 57 mins.| |May 13|Berlin|Hamburg|160|54 mins.| |May 14|Hamburg|Linkoping (Sweden)|395|1 hour 58 mins.| |May 15|Linkoping|Stockholm|110|32 mins.| |May 18|Stockhom-Norrkpoin, Linkoping-Jonkoping-Malmo-Halmstad-Gothernburg-Orebro-Upsala-Stockholm| |805|4 hours 45 mins.| |May 19|Stockholm|Oslo|250|1 hour 25 mins.| |May 19|Oslo|Stockholm|250|1 hour 17 mins.| |May 19|Stockholm-Gavle-Stockholm| |185|58 mins.| |May 21*|Stockholm|Malmo|320|1 hour 30 mins.| |May 21*|Malmo|Paris|650|4 hours 15 mins.| |May 27|Paris|London|220|1 hour 15 mins.| |May 27|London|Berlin|615|3 hours 16 mins.| |May 27|Berlin|Paris|605|3 hours 1 min.| |May 29|Paris-Rouen-Nates-Bordeaux| |510|2 hours 45 mins.| |May 29|Bordeaux-Toulouse-Marseilles| |370|1 hour 55 mins.| |May 30|Marsilles-Lyon||170|50 mins.| |May 30|Lyon-Dijon-Nancy||235|1 hour 5 mins.| |May 30|Nancy|Paris|185|1 hour 5 mins.| |May 31|Paris|Copenhagen|650|4 hours 45 mins.| |June 1*|Copenhagen|Amsterdam|460|2 hours 30 mins.| |June 6|Amsterdam|Basle|420|2 hours 11 mins.| |June 8|Basle|Zurich|55|14 mins.| |June 8|Zurich|Lausanne|450|2 hours 30 mins.| |June 9|Lausanne|Geneva|270|1 hour 30 mins.| |June 9|Geneva|Lausanne|35|11 mins.| |June 10|Lausanne|Paris|285|1 hour 35 mins.| |June 10*|Paris|Rome|700|3 hours 30 mins.| |June 11|Rome|Torino|350|1 hour 58 mins.| |June 11|Torino|Milano|75|24 mins.| |June 12|Milano|Budapest|485|2 hours 30 mins.| |June 12*|Budapest|Rome|650|3 hours 30 mins.| |June 15|Rome|London|950|5 hours 30 mins.| |June 17**|London|Rome|950|4 hours 38 mins.| |June 17**|Rome|London|950|5 hours| |July 3|Quebec|Montreal|150|48 mins.| |July 3|Montreal|Toronto|325|1 hour 48 mins.| |July 3|Toronto|Ottawa|225|1 hour 10 mins.| |July 3|Ottawa|Montreal|140|32 mins.| |July 7*|Montreal|New York|350|2 hours 45 mins.| 20,620 miles *=New record **=Broke own record The "Whirlwind" Engine GUYS W. VAUGHAN, president of the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, points out that the flight of Hoiriis and Hillig was the first time the new 300 h.p. Whirlwind motor had crossed the Atlantic. "All the previous American transatlantic flights were made with the J5 Whirlwind," said Mr. Vaughan, "which developed only 200 h.p. Only a few realize the progress that has been made in engine development since the Lindbergh flight. We realized then that increased horsepower without increase of weight, resistance or cost would be required by this rapidly advancing industry, and to accomplish this we developed this new Whirlwind series, with motors of 5, 7 and 9 cylinders developing 165, 240 and 300 h.p., respectively, with 85% interchangeability of parts, and incorporating lighter and stronger metals and many other refinements. "Frank Hawks, on all his record-breaking American and European flights has used this same motor. But further engineering development and supercharging enabled us to increase the effectiveness of his motor to more than 400 h.p. without increasing the weight or frontal resistance. Hawk's consistent performance and the splendid flight of Hoiriis and Hillig are adequate testimony that the new motors have the same reliability that brought fame to the old ones, and our latest research leads us to believe that in the near future we can produce more than 500 h.p. and still meet the rigid requirements of the Department of Commerce." Wright has developed engines which have crossed both Poles, broken several transcontinental records, and circled the globe. *** Personals Miss Laura Ingalls is busy with final plans for a solo flight along the Lindbergh route to Paris. *** Miss Lauretta Schimmoler, aviatrix, is manager of the Bucyrus, Ohio, city airport. *** J.D. Brock, a Kansas City, Mo., business man, has flown daily for nearly one and a half years, using his airplane for ordinary transportation. *** Senator Hiram Bingham made Wiley Post talk 22 minutes at a recent dinner, in Washington, D.C., and thereby won the warm thanks of 800 men and women in the Willard Hotel ballroom and the innumerable invisible radio audience. Post told a story worth going around the world on a bicycle to hear. *** Reg L. Robbins and H.S. Jones, of Fort Worth, Texas, failed in July in an attempt to fly nonstop from Seattle, Washington, to Tokyo. But they say the second attempt will be something else again. *** Mrs. Herbert Hoover has accepted the invitation of the Navy to name the new dirigible Akron at its hangar at Akron, Ohio, on August 8.
