Again, Hawks. Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks in New York one morning last week had, for something to talk about, an engagement to play golf with his father in Los Angeles at 4 p.m. that afternoon. He left Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream, L. I. at 6 a.m. (Eastern daylight-saving time). Grinning, he greeted his father at Los Angeles Municipal Airport at 4:50:43 p.m. (Pacific standard time), too weary for golf but with a new east-west transcontinental record. It was the first such flight ever made in full daylight. The plane was the...
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