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Speed for 100 kilometers with payload of 600 kilograms (U. S.):

Amelia Earhart, 171.43 miles per hour

Lockheed Vega monoplane, P and W Wasp, 420 h.p.

Detroit, Michigan, June 25, 1930

Duration with refueling in flight (United States):

Evelyn Trout and Edna May Cooper, 123 hours

Curtiss Robin monoplane. Challenger 170 h.p. engine

Los Angeles, California, January 4–9, 1931

Distance airline (France) Maryse Bastie, 1849.76 miles:

Klemm airplane, Salmson 40 h.p. engine

Le Bourget, France, to Urino, Russia, June 28–30, 1930

Altitude (United States) May Haizlip, 18,097 feet

Buhl “Bull Pup,” Szekeley 85 h.p. engine

St. Clair, Michigan, June 13, 1931

Altitude (United States) Marion Eddy Conrad, 13,461.25 feet

Savoia-Marchetti airplane, Kinner 125 h.p. engine

Port Washington, Long Island, October 20, 1930

Records as such may or may not be important, but at least the more of them women make, the more forcefully is it demonstrated that they can and do fly. Directly or indirectly, more opportu­nities for those who wish to enter the aviation world should be opened by such evidence.