Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-13 | Page 5 | Ingalls Sets Flying Record

SETS L FLYING RECORD f 1 I. I I NEW EW YORK Sept 13 Petite TV laura t Ingalls today loday held the wo wo- en west est transcontinental air t nonstop record record record-a. a mark marl that the persistent flier had twice before at it- it to Jo set and failed S just before midnight she set her Orion Lockheed monoplane down Floyd Bennett field 13 hours 34 je I on minutes s and 5 seconds af leaving leaving jos los oJ Angeles 1 Seven Seven minutes faster time and ahe he would 0 have ti tied d the nonstop record for tor both men and w women men held by Frank Hawks She might have ha turned the trick if her radio com corn j had bad been functioning lIt It went vent o out t of commission lon she sId ld Just west of at Columbus Ohio It was not working she Floyd Bennett field as far farI ii I Mitchell field cruising to lose loser r and then turned back sack to toI I claim th the record from Am Amelia lla Earh Ear- Ear h bart rt Putnam i Erom From Los Angeles came from Miss Earhart and word that she did not intend to try the title b back ck again B- B Miss Ingalls' Ingalls first consideration for nc which ea landing s was c t I her to the new mark She SheI I would not leave the field until she ahe shei i safely fel stowed va sto away i She was laughing as mechanics IE a E th the field rushed to 10 anchor the pla plane e She pulled off oft the dark beret that bad had held her waved locks in place throughout the trip and waved over It-over her head before she he slipped I tI ever over or P th the COCKpit to stand siana stana for lor lor a moever mo- mo tI ever over or P th the COCKpit to stand siana stana for lor lor a moever mo- mo moment 1 ment on the monoplanes monoplane's s 's s low wing mO 1 Her food on the trip east was wasti ti only a banana she said me-I me I flew too Nobody could see me I high she laughed f She had flown from to feet leet above ground she he said most r of the way 1 I used the automatic robot pilot off and on and I used the de department de de- of commerce radio beam 0 t was Vas perfect perfecto