Lewis Yancey
Toronto Daily Star, April 4 1930
It turned out that Lewis Yancey (1895-1940) was able to fly to Bermuda in about eight and a half hours of flying time, but he and his two crew members had to spend the night at sea partway through the flight after their plane was forced down. Fortunately, the plane was equipped with pontoons. Even more fortunately, the plane was able to take off again.
When not flying, Yancey was writing: he wrote a number of books on aviation and contributed articles to the New York Times. Like many early pilots, Yancey died young, but he didn't perish in a plane crash - he died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
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