Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1914 — Aviator Lands in Indiana With New Distance Record. [ARTICLE]

Aviator Lands in Indiana With New Distance Record.

Kentland, Ind., Oct. 17.—W. C. Robinson, the young lowa aviator, today captured the American record for sustained flight across country. His flight from Des Moines, la., was intended to end in Chicago, but was really ended here, eighty-one miles southeast of Chicago. The deviation in his course was due to a severe windstorm and rain. Robinson covered the journey in four hours and twenty-six minutes, which Js estimat--1 to be between eighty-five and ninety miles an hour. The distance between Des Moines and Chicago by the shortest route is 300 miles and, as the aviator flew eighty-one miles southeast of Chicago, it was estimated that he actually covered approximately 400 miles. The former for continuous flight was 264 miles, made by C. Murvin Wood on Aug. 9, 1913.