Racer Jimmy Doolittle With Wife and Robert Adamson by Airplane

(Original Caption) Major Jimmy Doolittle, speed pilot, hung up a new transcontinental speed record for the transport plane, when he landed his ship first at Floyd Bennett Field, New York, and then at Newark, New Jersey Airport. He clipped four minutes and 50 seconds from the mark set by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and flew 18 miles further than did Rickenbacker. Doolittle was accompanied on the flight by his wife and Robert Adamson. This photo was made at Glensdale, California, just before the start of the flight, and was carried to Newark at the record breaking plane. It shows left to right just before they took off: Adamson and Major Mrs. Doolittle.