Speed for 100 kilometers with payload of 500 kilograms (U. S.):
Amelia Earhart, 171.43 miles per hour
Lockheed Vega monoplane, P and W Wasp, 420 h.p.
Detroit, Michigan, June 25, 1930
Duration with refueling in flight (United States):
Evelyn Trout and Edna May Cooper, 123 hours
Curtiss Robin monoplane. Challenger 170 h.p. engine
Los Angeles, California, January 4–9, 1931
Light Airplanes
Distance airline (France) Maryse Bastie, 1849.76 miles:
Klemm airplane, Salmson 40 h.p. engine
Le Bourget, France, to Urino, Russia, June 28–30, 1930
Altitude (United States) May Haizlip, 18,097 feet
Buhl “Bull Pup,” Szekeley 85 h.p. engine
St. Clair, Michigan, June 13, 1931
Seaplanes
Altitude (United States) Marion Eddy Conrad, 13,461.25 feet
Savoia-Marchetti airplane, Kinner 125 h.p. engine
Port Washington, Long Island, October 20, 1930
Records as such may or may not be important, but at least the more of them women make, the more forcefully is it demonstrated that they can and do fly. Directly or indirectly, more opportunities for those who wish to enter the aviation world should be opened by such evidence.
