Eddie Schneider, youthful Jersey City pilot, attempting to set a new junior trans-continental East-to-West flight record, was awaiting weather reports at his hotel here today before resuming his trip. Schneider, forced down by fog and rain at Water Street, Pennsylvania yesterday, said that his plane was ready, that he had had a good night's rest and was anxious to go, but that he would not attempt to take off unless conditions between here and Columbus, Ohio, his next stop, were better than unofficial reports early this morning indicated. A narrow escape from disaster was related by Schneider on his arrival last night by plane from Water Street, Pennsylvania, at Schutz Airport near Altoona. ... The boy is no inexperienced flyer despite the fact that he has been flying only two years. He has had more than 300 hours in the air of which 38 were at night. He left Dickinson High School after having completed his sophomore year to study aviation at the Westfield Airport and has made such progress since that he is considered one of the best junior aviators in the country. He is flying a Cessna monoplane equipped with a Warner Scarab motor having 110-horsepower with a top speed of 132 miles an hour.
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