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The Bismarck Tribune
Bismarck, Mandan, Burleigh County, Morton County, North Dakota
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Six men from Van Hook, North Dakota, took a recent airplane trip to Medora and back, piloted by George Lowers in a Stinson-Detroiter owned by John Whitman, flying over Bad Lands and Killdeer mountains at speeds over 100 mph and altitudes up to 2,000 feet.
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Air Trip to Medora
Van Hook, N. D., Oct. 8.-P. M. Shefveland, T. B. Rossum, Oscar Knudson, Philip Elgin, and C. O. and L. E. Heidenberg made an airplane trip from here to Medora and return recently in a plane piloted by George Lowers of Flaxville, Mont.
The pilot took a course over the Bad Lands and the Killdeer mountains in the six-passenger Stinson-Detroiter, which attained a speed of 100 miles an hour and upwards. The party reached an altitude of 2,000 feet in places. The machine belongs to John Whitman of Grand Forks.
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Van Hook, N. D.
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Recently
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successful round trip with no reported issues.
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P. M. Shefveland, T. B. Rossum, Oscar Knudson, Philip Elgin, and C. O. and L. E. Heidenberg made an airplane trip from Van Hook to Medora and return in a six-passenger Stinson-Detroiter piloted by George Lowers of Flaxville, Mont. The flight went over the Bad Lands and Killdeer mountains, reaching speeds of 100 miles an hour and upwards and altitudes of 2,000 feet in places. The plane belongs to John Whitman of Grand Forks.