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...middle-aged woman, smiling, stepped out of a plane at Le Bourget Field, Paris. She had driven the plane from Lyons, France, that morning, accompanied by a pilot. She was the Duchess of Bedford (England), "just touring Europe...
Hero Levine's standing with Frenchmen was ameliorated when he gave 100,000 francs ($4,000) for a pilots' clubhouse at Le Bourget. Hero Levine's standing with his countrymen was salvaged by onetime (1920-21) U. S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, who described the Levine flight and proposed return as a passenger (see p. 19), as a challenge "to you, to me, to everyone...
...shrouded lights which failed to guide Commander Richard Byrd to Le Bourget flying field would have been plainly visible had they been of the type recently invented. A row of these new lights would have been discernible for 20 miles as small but distinct red buttons, even through the heaviest...
...that obscured land and the tips of the America's wings. Once, for a moment, they thought they saw rows of squat bath houses on a beach. Again, there seemed to appear a faint haze of light-perhaps it was Paris or the beacons at Le Bourget airport. Then the fog swallowed all. "When we got above the clouds," Commander Byrd later told the New York Times, "there were at times some terrible views. We would look hundreds of feet into fog valleys-dark ominous depths. At times the cloud peaks on the horizon looked exactly like a land...
...valet and two Dutch pilots,. Van Lear Black, chairman of the board of the Baltimore Sun, left Amsterdam, Holland, last week in a Fokker monoplane to fly to the Dutch East Indies. Leisurely, he hopped to Budapest-thence to Constantinople, Aleppo, Bagdad. . . . Crash & Fire, Three miles from Le Bourget (Paris air port) a heavily loaded biplane floundered down upon a wheat field, smashed its landing gear. There was an ear-splitting explosion, followed by the crackle of flames. From each side of the plane leaped two burning figures. They rolled in the wheat, saving their lives. Thus, ended the brief...