Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-08-26 | Page 9 | Fast Airplanes Complete First Leg of Contest

oo FAST AIRPLANES COMPLETE FIRST i LEG OF CONTEST i MINKOi.A. - y . Aug. 25 Three fast airplar?s swooped down on Roosc-veil Roosc-veil field here tonight, completing the' first lee of their round trip flight be-1 tween Toronto and Mineola, in the first international aerial derby. Sergeant Frank Coombs, a Canadian Canad-ian aviator, flying a DH-9. with 400 horsepower Liberty motor, was tho first arrival, landine at 7:17 o'clock just six hours and "1 minutes from the time he started on tho 500 mile COUTSO at Toronto His actual flying time,! ; however, was only three hour-- and ".." minutes, stops having been made at Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany i Roland Rohifs, famous American test pilot -who was the first flier to : hop off" at Toronto despite the fact that he had previously suffered a spill when his plane turned turtle, landed I at 7 IS o'clock and Major R M i , Schroeder, another American filer who had elected to start the race nt the Toronto end, arrived four minutes it - J er Rohifs gave his time from start. I to finish as six hours and 2S minu'es jand Major Schroeder gave hi- as si hours and 22 minutes, but neither announced an-nounced their time in actual flight.