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NEW YORK TIMES
NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1916 - TWENTY-TWO PAGES.
RUTH LAW FLIES 590 MILES WITHOUT STOP; BEATHS BOTH VICTOR CARLSTROM'S RECORDS; DUE TO REACH NEW YORK AT 9 A.M. TODAY
DOES FOR LACK OF FUEL
Makes remarkable Trip in Obsolete Machine in Use Two Years.
Travels Without a Hitch at 103 Miles an Hour Till Supply of Gasolines Exhausted.
WORLD'S WOMAN RECORD
Gets Away from Chicago in Gusty Wind - Aviators Are Amazed by Performance.
Ruth Law, a slim young woman of 28, at the wheel of a two-year-old, now obsolete type of Curtiss biplane, flew without stop yesterday from Chicago to Hornenell, N. Y., a distance of 590 miles, breaking the American nonstop record made by Victor Charlstrom ini the modern 200-horsepower Curtiss military biplane. "The New York Times," on Nov. 2. Carlstrom's nonstop distance was 452 miles-from Chicago to Erie, Penn. Miss Law bettered this by 135 miles. Incidentally she broke the world's record for continuous flight for women pilots. Until her achievement of yesterday, she had never flown a greater distance cross-country than twenty-five miles. Moreover, she flew yesterday purely as a sporting proposition.
Having stopped at Hornell for lack of gasoline, Miss Law, with replenished fuel, remained her flight and winged ninety miles to Binghamton, N. Y., where she spent the night. At 7 o'clock this morning she intends to take to the air again, to finish, as did Carlstrom, a flight from Chicago to New York, with a landing at Governors Island. With good luck she should accomplish this between 9 and 10 o'clock.
In her flight yesterday the young woman' schedule was:
Miss Law's Actual Flying Time.
Left Chicago (Eastern time) ..... 9:25 A. M.
Arrived Horness, N. Y............ 2:10 P. M.
Left Hornell, N. Y............... 3:24 P. M.
Arrived Binghamton............... 4:20 P. M.
Time. Miles.
Chicago to Hornell............... 5:45:00 590
Hornell to Bingamton............. 56:00 90
Flight time ..................... 6:41:00 680
Her speed for the record-breaking part of her journey averaged close to 103 miles an hour, while the ninety miles between Hornell and Bingahmton were made at 97 miles an hour. Carlstrom's average speed for the distance traveled on the first day was 107 miles an hour.
Miss Law's announcement several weeks ago that she would attempt the Chicago-New York flight was not taken seriously by any one connected with avaiation in this city. It was said that she did not own an aeroplane capable of making even one-third the distance and when James S. Stevens, Vice President of the Aero Club of Illinois, sent word early yesterday morning that she had left Grant Park at 7:25 A. M. (central time) and was on her way here, there was universal admiration at her pluck in making the attempt.
This changed to amazement when word came in from various cities along the lie of her flight telling of her passage. At 10:23 A. M. (central time) it was reported that she had passed over Vermillion, Ohio, and then it began to seem likely that she would make a remarkable flight. No one yet believed that she would break the record set by
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Miss Ruth Law
Miss Law Tells of Her Record Flight; To Try Non-Stop New York Trip Next
Proud that She Has Beaten Carlstrom's Recent Record and Has Done So In a Small and Old Machine With Limited Fuel Capacity.
By RUTH LAW
[Telephoned to THE NEW YORK TIMES from Binghamton, N. Y.]
Copyright, 1916, by The New York Times Company.
I have made the longest flight a woman ever made. But I am not boasting about that; the real thing I have done is to show that it is an easy thing to fly from New York to Chicago without stopping if one has the equipment. My little machine, even with its extra tank, could carry only fifty-three gallons of gasoline, and I had to stop in Hornell to get more fuel.
If I had been able to carry 100 gallons of gasoline, I would have eaten dinner in New York. There was no trouble, absolutely non, with the machine, and the stop in Hornell was as I had planned. There was a man waiting on the racetrack there with the cans of gasoline I had told him to bring. That I had to stop here in Bingamton was due to no fault of mine or of the aeroplane - I stopped because it was dark and I didn't have any lights. You see, I had planned to leave Chicago an hour and a half earlier than I did, but it was so cold that the engine wouldn't start because the gasoline and air wouldn't mix in the carburetor. As soon as I can get a machine that will carry enough gasoline I am going to make the flight from Chicago to New York without stopping.
Anyhow, I feel pretty proud about it. I don't know just how far I flew and only generally how fast I went. I just started and flew until I had to stop to get more gasoline. I know I flew further than Carlstrom did.
Her First Distance Flight
Now this flight of mine is a personal ....
I had planned to leave at 6:30 o'clock Central time. But it was so cold we couldn't get the engine to run. The temperature was freezing, and the air and gasoline wouldn't mix together in the carburetor. To make this part of the story short, it was 7:20 before we got the engine running. Mr. Stevens, a representative of the Aero Club, was with us all the time.
Skims Chicago, 200 Feet Up.
I took off the skirt and I had been wearing over my flying suit, stored it behind the seat, got in, gave the word, and was off at 7:25. The dozen people in Grant Park cheered me as I started, flying low, south over Chicago. I skimmed over the city, flying about 200 feet up, for about twenty-six miles, and then turned toward Cleveland, going up to 3,000, 4,000, and then 5,000 feet. I had with me a barograph, an aneroid, a compass, and a clock, as well as my speedometer. I had left the lights behind, because I thought they would in the way. I didn't keep close track of the time, but noticed that I was making about 100 miles an hour consistently a short time after leaving Chicago. When I started there was a southwest wind of about 26 miles an hour, but this soon died out, and there was almost no wind.
I passed over Cleveland, with everything going find, at a height of about 6,000 feet. I couldn't see whether there were many people watching me, and i suppose there were not, because my flight hadn't been advertised much. The....
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