Monday, November 12, 2007

Boy Pilot Seeks Record


Boy Pilot Seeks Record.

Jersey City Student Set to Fly to Pacific Coast and Back in August.

Special to The New York Times

Westfield, New Jersey; July 29, 1930. Eddie Schneider, 18-year-old Jersey City high school graduate, will try next month to better the national junior transcontinental airplane speed records of the late Frank Goldsborough. He plans to fly from the Westfield Airport to San Francisco and back. The youth has 275 air-hours to his credit, of which thirty-eight hours were of night flying. The record attempt will be made in a four-piece Cessna monoplanes powered with a Warner Scarab motor, a far faster ship that that used by Goldsborough.

Source: New York Times; July 30, 1930

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