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Eddie Schneider On His Way West. Boy Flier, Seeking to Break Junior Transcontinental Record. Hops Off From Tipton This Morning. Repairs Made To His Plane At Stultz Field. Next Stop Is Columbus, Ohio, From Where He Will Continue to St. Louis, Wichita, Kansas, and Los Angeles (English)
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15 August 1930
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Hopping off from Stultz field, Tipton, at 11:30 o'clock this morning, Eddie Schneider, 18-year-old flier of Jersey City, New Jersey, is winging his way west in his efforts to break the junior transcontinental record. Young Schneider remained overnight in this city after his way was blocked yesterday by rain and fog and made necessary his landing, first at Huntingdon, next on a farm near Water Street and then at Stultz field, where he arrived at 5:30 o'clock last evening. The boy flier narrowly escaped crashing at Water Street and damaged his plane when, blinded by intense fog, the fuselage of his craft was brushed by the limbs of a tree, due to the fact that he was unable to ascertain his altitude and was traveling too low to the ground. Immediately following his rather harrowing experience with the tree, he landed on the Clair Harnish farm near Water Street and remained there until 5 o'clock last evening when be departed for Stultz field, where his plane was kept overnight and repairs made this morning to the fabric on the underside of the fuselage. ... (English)
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