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...over the English Channel approached the Dover chalk cliffs from the French shore. Larger & larger it grew until watchers on the British side could clearly distinguish a man steering a gimcrack monoplane. He landed safely, and the British rushed to join the world in congratulating Aeronaut Louis Bleriot upon passing one of aviation's epochal milestones...
Michael Gregor, who built the first private Russian airplane, a modified Bleriot, in 1910 and sold it to Major Seversky's father. A War flyer, Gregor arrived in the U. S. in 1921, designed several planes including the Bird in which Charles Augustus Lindbergh taught his wife to fly. Gregor had a hand in the design of the Seversky amphibian, is currently freelancing...
From a strategical standpoint the promotion of an American transatlantic airline as a war-defensive measure is highly desirable. An English historian once remarked, "On the day that Bleriot flew the English Channel England became a continental nation." It might be said with equal truth that the day Charles A. Lindbergh flew the Atlantic Ocean, the United States became a European power. Few events in aeronautical history are more strikingly significant than the landing of a whole squadron of Italian planes under the command of General Italo Balbo in the very heart of America at Chicago three years...
...Channel. Seven were drowned. Last year an Imperial Airways plane exploded near the Belgian coast, killed 15. Last May a French airliner fell into the Channel, killing six. Last week a London-Paris airliner exploded over the Channel, plunged seven persons to their deaths. Few days later old Louis Bleriot, first man to fly the Channel, arrived in the U. S. to tell newshawks that airplanes are still far from safe...
...week two other Frenchmen, Maurice Rossi & Paul Codos, set out from Paris to fly non-stop to California (6,200 mi.) and thus beat their own world's distance record set last year (New York-Syria, 5,657 mi.). Their plane, built five years ago by old Louis Bleriot, was named Joseph LeBrix after the famed French flyer who crashed to death in Russia three years ago. To spur them on the French Government offered a prize of one million francs ($66,000). Prevailing tailwinds sped them safely over the North Atlantic. Above Newfoundland they ran into...