| Show RUTH LAW COMPLETES RECORD Fles Flies From Chicago to New Ney NewYork York in iii Nine Hours and andOne andOne One Minute SHE COVERS MILES lILES Greeted on Arrival at Go Gov Gov- emor's Island by Major General Leonard Wood NEW YORK Nov No 20 rho O.-ho Tho record IM I'M breaking airplane flight of ot it nuth nm Law begun yesterday In Chicago ter l f at Governors Governor's Island at at i. i Ju Sn a. a m. m today after ater stops at aad ad BInghamton X N. Y The final 1 milu from BInghamton to this city oly was COT coy cred this morning In two hours hour twenty minute and the entire journey I I miles In an airline In the actual u ute mite flying time of ot nine nino hours and one one m sun mla 1 l Miss Iss L Law was vas greeted on her herit arrival l F it f fir v n 0 r's rs 0 hv bv rn l n i 1 J I n rn tn H aJ Mrs Irs Leonard Wood oot who congratulated her on her achievement She wa was considerably con con- chilled and was taken to th the 1 i house of one ono of ot the officers at the poetto post poet to recuperate She had little to sa say about her flight except that she had to fly fy much lower lo er f than she wanted to on account of the i haze It I was tho the cause of or remark f among those who examined her machine ma ma- chine here that Its ls structure was such as to expose her to the air more than thanin t tin In tho caso case In mo most moat t modern airplanes The pilots pilot's plots plot's seat Is placed on a tion ton In itt front of or the machine so that tbt the aviatrix gets the tho full lul force of 0 tin tIl wind The official time for lor the arrival of given by Miss Iss Law was as mem mem- t hers bers of the board of or governors of ot th the te j Aero Acre Club of oC America Americ who were on y hand to receive her No o attempt W via ws made b by the club to compute her actual flying time or average speed The Utter litter lit Ut- It ter was unofficially estimated at about aboul miles hour for the two ninety an j distance between New cw York and Chi Chi- Cl- Cl cago cage In making their official announcement announce announce- ment mont that the American nonstop cross cross- country record was won by Miss Law t I as well wall as the world record In that wel classification for women and the these second see sec 1 ond end best world record for tor men an and women Aero Acre club officers expressed I surprise at the difficulties with Whid she had to contend In making the theS flight A special point was 3 made ot the fact tact that she frequently lund had hat to di dip J her machine In ofer to make tho the gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line lne run down in the carburetor from from t the tanks which are placed too low lo loto to 10 feed automatically when the supply ebbs past a certain point fl Tho The airplane used to make this rec ree ree- ree ord breaking flight their statement night small the loop bi biplane biplane bl bi read was the smal t tread plane with wih tho the propeller In tho the rear which she had built buit especially for tor her self Bel She wanted this type where the r seat Is in front without protection from I the elements she said sail because It a 3 af affords r fords a wl wider er range of or vision while hie flying Th Tho machine was as equipped d with a horsepower motor and gasoline gas I oline oUne tanks holding fifty thre thre gallons These tanks being much lower man toan me u uc motor feed the tho motor In the normal noral t. t wa way until two-thirds two of or the gas IllS has been consumed after ater which it I was n Lee Lee- rec c- c essar essary for tor Miss Is' Is Law Lw to dip the tha machine ma- ma f chine from time to time to fill the car car- bu re t o r. r Tho The statement quoted Miss Law assaying as u c approached N car I ew w saying that as she York her gasoline supply was vas gettins gettin so low that even cven the tile feeding by diPping dip dipping ping was getting less effective She 4 read ready to land Inthe inthe In Inthe said she the was getting the city streets if it f necessary The distance b by which Miss La L Law bettered bet betS record wa was Carlstrom's American 3 given by hy the club as miles the dis distance tance covered today from to New Nc ew York at miles plus about j twenty miles mies added by bj zigzags and the th time was ivas given as 2 hours 14 1 minutes and 35 sc seconds ond 1 The machine used by Victor C Carl Carl- rl strom he previous holder hohler of oC the American 1 j established In nonstop record a a I November ember 2 from Chicago to New ew e 1 t r was o of the t type pe In the cocU pit pi of 0 which he was snugly h Prot protected from tho the wind In the tho present Mias Law bettered Carlstrom's h by about OO roo miles mal making ing the to 0 miles mies In an airline from Chicago Hornen N. N Y where sho she arrived yesterday yes yes- es without stopping |
