Show Air AirMail Mail Pilot Out Record for f o- o o o Vance ian to Try S. S F F. N. N rip I Will Fly Home Bu Buik Plane I LAIRE 10 K I. V VANCE ANCE air mall mail CLAIRE pilot flying the San Reno-San Francisco run of ot the Western West West- em ern division will attempt attempt a transcontinental nonstop unassisted flight light about June 1 I according to Claron Nelson divisional t Vance will fly a specially constructed biplane built bunt by himself himself him him- Iselt self at t San Francisco This plane I has a flying period of or twenty eight i j hours and is designed to average iss miles mUes per hour Superintendent I Nelson will leave here for San SanI I II I Francisco next week to assist I I Vance in making arrangements for fot his flight light which will be a personal I venture and not under direction of ot the air airmail mall mail service I Vance anco Is according to Nelson one of or the nerviest nerviest pilots to ever everI I guide guidea a plane At the nine Forty celebration at Sacramento last ear vear he made a sensational landing with himself dressed in cowboy j attire straddling the body of ot his I I 1 ship with a R. lariat leading from his hand to ih the he ships ship's gear It was Vance who who- piloted Nelson to the air races races at Detroit a afew afew few months ago If It Vance succeeds In making the San New Francisco-New York flight night without stopping and unassisted he will set up UI a new bew record In tranScontinental transcontinental transcontinental trans tranS- continental flying In the recent cross co country nonstop flight made by b- MacReady l and end J Kelly elly they al alternated at- at as pilot every six hours Their average for the trip was about miles I per er hour V Vance nce hopes hopes' to beat this speed by one- one I third with his home t bul plane and to do all the flying The Vance Yance ship Just recently completed is according to Jo Nelson an exceptionally fine piece of ot work Vance will make his first trial flight h In iii the plane from the San Francisco air mail mall field tomorrow Until the date dat of pf his on the thelong thelong thelong long jaunt he will make test flights lIghts every to limber er up the ship and determine its various ec eccentricities ec- ec I |