 They departed from Santa Monica, California, on 18 August for Cleveland, Ohio.Nichols crashed, while Earhart finished third in the heavy class.During the 1930s, while working for Fairchild and other aviation companies, Nichols made several record-setting flights, most of them in a Lockheed Electra, the New Cincinnati, on open loan from millionaire radio industrialist Powel Crosley, Jr.