High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Nietzel Buck (January 29, 1914 – April 14, 2007) in 1930 broke the junior transcontinental air speed record and for a time was the youngest licensed pilot in the United States. He was the son of Abijah Orange Buck (1869–1932) and Emily Nietzel, and was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey on January 29, 1914. Emily was Abija's second wife, and she was the daughter of Elizabeth Bellingrath. In 1930 at age 16 he took lessons in a Fleet Aircraft using a Kinner engine. He received the Department of Commerce license #13478. On October 4, 1930 Robert beat the junior transcontinental airspeed record of Eddie August Schneider in his PA-6 Pitcairn Mailwing he named "Yankee Clipper". His time was 23 hours, and 47 minutes of elapsed flying time.

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