Lindbergh Unrivalled

Roscoe Turner, lieut.-colonel in the Nevada National Guard, in a uniform of his own devising--horizon blue tunic. whipcord breeches, braid, boots, flying insignia--with a lion cub as supercargo, last week tried to surpass Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's recent swift flight across the continent (TIME, April 28)./- Like Col. Lindbergh. Lieut.-Colonel Turner flew a Lockheed plane, but one more powerfully motored. Col. Lindbergh carried his wife as copilot. On her account he was obliged to make the flight as jarless as possible. That meant smoothly overcoming all air conditions, no excuses valid. They reached Roosevelt Field from Glendale, Calif, in 14 hr. 45 min. 32 sec. Lieut.-Colonel Turner flew from Los Angeles to Curtiss Airport five miles short of his goal. Roosevelt Field, in 15 hr. 37 min., almost an hour slower than the Lindberghs. He had alighted twice in between (the Lindberghs only once), and he was out of fuel at the end. His excuse: "I met miserable flying weather most of the way. It was so terrible at one time over Mexico that I thought I would be forced to jump." Thus one more emulation of excuseless Col. Lindbergh failed; the Colonel became, by one degree more, unique. May 20-21 was the third anniversary of Colonel Lindbergh's stimulating, trans-Atlantic flight. This past year he has again added noteworthy items to the scroll of his work, viz: Six trips across the U. S., including the above record; opening two mail routes to South America (Miami-Paramaribo, Miami-Buenos Aires); air explorations of Indian ruins in New Mexico and Arizona, and Mayan ruins in Yucatan; stunt flying with the Navy's high hat squadron at the Cleveland air races; displaying how easy it is to learn to glide; flying altogether about 30,000 miles in all sorts of machines, in all sorts of weather--always safely, surely, incomparably.

/- Col. Lindbergh is a colonel of both the Air Corps Reserve and of the Missouri National Guard. When flying he wears a business suit and, sometimes over that, flying overalls.

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