Because he had some trouble with his oil pump he changed his brand of oil here.
He said that he had encountered some bad weather but this disadvantage was offset by favourable winds.
Tt was largely because of the favourable winds encountered in mid-ocean that he arrived five hours head of schedule, he said.
Three hundred gallons of gasoline remained in the giant tanks of the glittering silver plane despite earlier apprehension that he would have to make a forced landing because of insufficient gasoline supplies.
Earlier, Mr. Hughes said in a commercial radio broadcast.that he had used more gasoline than he had expected He said he was experimenting to ascertain the amount of horsepower which he could use most economically.
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