The three-man team of Messrs. Harley Long, Thomas Smith and Clyde Schlieper today completed a week of continued effort in their fitty-horsepower Piper Cub monoplane in an effort to break the unlimited world endurance record.
They^celebrated the occasion with "another quick mid-air change in personnel at the controls to thrill the spectators, They made their first shift last Wednesday when Mr. Smith became ill from the motor fumes, used a parachute to land, and then Mr. Long took his place. Mr. Long climbed on to the roof of a motor car and grabbed a rope ladder which Mr. Sehlieper let down from the monoplane, which swooped low.
A big crowd saw the repetition of the thrfling stunt, with Mr. Smith swaying in the wind as he made the perilous climb, on the rope ladder and took the place of Mr. Schlieper. Mr, Schlieper came to earth by parachute.
He made the jump because he was exhausted. After a good rest and sleep at the airport, Mr. Schlieper announced he was ready to relieve one of the two men flying the plane.
The two men in the plane fly it in shifts. While one flies the other Tests—United Press.
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