Word: arrachart
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...sped on over Anatolia, Kurdistan, down the Euphrates Valley to meet the dawn. At Basra in Irak, where the Euphrates, led by the Tigris, floods down to the Persian Gulf and men are said to have flown on magic carpets, the speck finally came to earth. Captain Ludovic Arrachart and his brother Paul then cabled their whereabouts to the French Air Ministry, claiming a world's record non-stop flight of 2,484 miles in 26 % hours. Their speck had been a 550-horsepower Renault-motored airplane, starring with 3% tons of petrol...
...Captain Arrachart, famed French airman, stepped from his plane at a Paris flying field and turned a stiffened wrist to see the face of his watch. Other officers compared their time to his, excitedly contradicted him. He was just on time, they said. His confidence restored, the Captain pushed his way through the crowd on the landing field. He had just flown around Europe in 39 hr., 15 min. His schedule, which he adhered to with monotonous efficiency, began with breakfast in Paris on Monday, then...
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