Jersey Journal/1930/On Coast Hop

Edward Schneider, 18, of 114 Carlton Avenue, will start on his two-way flight to the Pacific Coast in an attempt to break the National Junior Trans-Continental Airplane Speed Record some- time next week, it was learned today. His plane is ready, he feels equal to the task, and only a few minor arrangements remain to be completed before the flight starts. No definite date has been set, it is believed, because the young flier wishes to wait for the most advantageous weather for flying. He will fly a plane equipped with a Warner Scarab, seven cylinder, 110 horsepower motor having 1,850 revolutions per minute and a top speed of 132 miles an hour. With it he is confident of breaking the record of the late Frank Goldsborough, who made the two trips in 33 hours, 20 minutes for the East-West trip and 28 hours, 55 minutes for the West-East trip. The flight will start at the Westfield Airport and the young aviator will attempt to make the Pacific Coast in one hop. Arrangements have been made, however for a stop at Wichita, Kansas, should gasoline run so low that the non-stop flight is impossible. Schneider is the son of Emil Schneider, now connected with a Newark Loan Company, but formerly a butcher and delicatessen store keeper at Stuyvesant Avenue. and the Boulevard, Jersey City. He was a student of Dickinson High School, but left after two years when he became enthused over aviation through an air trip taken while on a visit to Germany. After leaving high school, he attended the Atlantic Air College at Westfield, while only 16 years old. He has had 275 hours in the air and 38 hours of night flying. He recently made a non-stop flight to Wichita, Kansas. He is the holder of a limited commercial air pilot's license and a professional air chauffeur's license. The plane with which he is to try for the record was bought by his father recently. The flight is being directed by Charles P. Dann, Jr., president of the Atlantic Air Service.