AERONAUTICS: 246 Hours

In 246 hr. (10-4 days) you can:

Paint a house and barn.

Read the Bible through.

Steam from the U. S. to Constantinople.

Learn to be a detective by correspondence.

Get a new car delivered.

Have your appendix out and recover.

Harvest, thresh and ship a wheat crop.

While other people were doing such things, Aviators Loren W. Mendell, 30, of Los Angeles and Roland B. Reinhart, 29, of Salem, Ore., listened for 246 hr., 43 min., 32 sec., to the steady roar of an old Wright Whirlwind motor, regulate 1 the controls of an...

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