The sudden descent of the "Great er St, Louis" startled the crowd of 500 drowsy watchers, including a flock of reporters and photographers, who had been sleeping on im: provised beds on the flying-field for several nights.
The crowd put up only a sugh: demonstration, oddly contrasting with the delirious greetings of the for continuous flight, 420 hours, which they lost to the Hunter brethers last month, 'Aviation circles are greatly in-[terested in the remarkable perform-arca of the engine of the "Greater St. Louis," the propeller of whic', is estimated to have run 55,000,000] revolutions—Reuter, St. Louis, Aug. 17.
Landing at dawn to-day, Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brien ended their endurance flight with a total elapsed "air time" of 647 hours, 28 minutes, 30 seconds, or just' 31 minutes 30 seconds Jess than an ever, 27 days.
This broke the record set up by the Hunter brothers Last month by approximately nine days.
'A cracked crank-case. wa th cause of the descent, the domi probably having been' due to vibri tion which caused chrystlyzation and allowed the engine all to cape—United Press.
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