That had to be in July 1931. In June, on her way back east after failing to set a record for the fastest westbound transcontinental autogyro flight, she wrecked the aircraft in a takeoff accident in Abilene, Texas. Pitcairn quickly provided her with a new machine. Dallas, 180 miles east of Abilene, would be her first stop in the notoriously short-range auto-gyro. She wrecked that aircraft later that month arriving back in New Jersey. She totaled a third autogyro in September in a landing accident in Detroit.