Re' above
DISTANCE record, found more info' on a web-site in Marshall MISSOURI:
http://www.nicholasbeazley.org/history.php... 1921 ... Dwight "Barney" Zimmerley of Cogswell, North Dakota ... crashed his plane near Marshall [Missouri] ...
Nicholas and Beazley frequented the National Air Races in St. Louis [1923]. This is where they met the world famous aeronautical engineer Walter H. Barling [Barling Bomber was the biggest ship at the Air Races], who later designed the wing for the NB-3.
http://www.nicholasbeazley.org/exhibits.php
NB-3 [two photos]
* Designed and built in 1929 by Nicholas-Beazley
* 80 h.p. Genet Engine
* Tubular steel frame fuselage with aluminum wing
* First true unique mono-wing design in the United States
* Set
altitude and
distance records in 1929 and 1930
* Only complete NB-3 known to exist
http://www.marshallnews.com/story/1183682.html
...
The Marshall Democrat-News"Zimmerley Tells of His Flight to Canada
"Marshall Pilot Had Interesting Experiences On His Way Across Continent ...
"... the experience of D. S. "Barney" Zimmerley, Marshall pilot, who flew from Brownsville, Texas, to Winnipeg, Canada, Sunday, July 7 [1929], in sixteen hours flat. A cold, which made his muscles very sore and caused him some lameness, was the result....
"... 'I got very cold before I landed,' Zimmerley said today in telling of his flight. 'However, this may have been augmented some by my being somewhat wet from storms I had passed through a few hours previous. I was rather tired, too, from my 1,725-mile flight and my resistance wasn't as high as it normally is.'..."
"... difficulty in climbing to 400 feet, because my engine was not thoroughly warm ... and the ship acquired an air speed of 105 miles an hour, despite the fact that my load of 881 pounds exceeded the entire weight of the plane by nearly two hundred pounds...."
Just to verify the identity of the PILOT in the PHOTOs, I sent a question to that local editor in Marshall, Missouri, asking that his writer confirm the man in the PHOTOs is really Barney Zimmerly, chief pilot for Nicholas-Beazley Company. [Edit: CONFIRMED identity, against photo in the deHatre Collection at MoHistorical Society (Louie deHatre operated a restaurant at Lambert Field called "Louie's Place"), the pilot in above photos is Zimmerly.]
If Zimmerly was North Dakota born & raised, then he would be much better acclimatized for the -35 Temps during his Feb'1930 ALTITUDE record (Saint Louis is mostly HOT and Humid with only two or three days of "winter" annually. Similarly, Lindbergh, RAC's chief pilot, was raised up near the headwaters of the Mississippi.)