Another for the Book

Sportsman Flier Howard Hughes has piled up more outstanding aviation records than any professional. Once holder of the world landplane speed record, he has set marks round-the-world, from New York to Paris, Miami to New York, Chicago to Los Angeles, U. S. coast-to-coast. Last week, with no more to urge him on than a seven-mile tail wind and the desire to try out a new type of oxygen mask, Flier Hughes with three companions took off from Glendale, Calif, in the same 7 1/2-ton Lockheed 14-II transport plane that carried him around the top of the world. He soared into the substratosphere, landed at Floyd Bennett Field in New York ten hours, 32 minutes and 20 seconds later, faster by a half-hour than any transport plane had ever made the trip before. At an average altitude of 17,000 feet, Howard Hughes and companions found the new oxygen mask comfortable, efficient. Designed by Mayo Clinic Surgeon Richard Lovelace, the mask mixes air with oxygen, eliminates sore throats from raw oxygen fed by other devices. Unimpressed was Howard Hughes when unofficial timers informed him he had set a new record for big ships. Said he: "I am not interested any more in breaking records."

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