When George T. Baker set the transcontinental record for a Lockheed Lodestar (Los Angeles to Jacksonville, 9 hours 29 minutes, November 2, 1940), his flight engineer and observer was (left) Kenneth J. Boedecker of Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Paterson, New Jersey. With them was Norman Lee, the first man to fly entirely around the world as a paying passenger on scheduled air transportation. Boedecker was the service engineer who prepared Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis" for the New York to Paris flight in 1927. The Lodestar had a top speed of 260mph at 8,200 feet with a full load of 18,500 pounds. Cruising speed was 230 mph at 12,000 feet, using only 55 percent of its 2,400 horsepower.