Roscoe Turner, lieut.-colonel in the Nevada National Guard, in a uniform of his own devisinghorizon blue tunic. whipcord breeches, braid, boots, flying insigniawith a lion cub as supercargo, last week tried to surpass Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's recent swift flight across the continent (TIME, April 28). Like Col. Lindbergh. Lieut.-Colonel Turner flew a Lockheed plane, but one more powerfully motored. Col. Lindbergh carried his wife as copilot. On her account he was obliged to make the flight as jarless as possible. That meant smoothly overcoming all air conditions, no excuses valid....
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