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Again Costes. Round and round a giant's circle, droning on through the Provence mistral with a log of slowly waning fuel and gradually mounting flying time, last week went the Question Mark, red-painted French Breguet airplane, in search of a new endurance record. Piloted by Dieudonné ("Doudou") Costes and his companion Paul Codos, it made its way over flat-roofed, smelly Marseilles, to time-broken Avignon, to musty Narbonne, and then over the same route again. For 52 hours and 34 minutes the Breguet's motor snorted along. Then with a last puff and snort...
...deny the inferiority of American aviation. What are they doing in Europe? The French in Morocco are using the Breguet two-seater planes, which are the same as those that they had at the end of the War. The British use the Bristol fighter, which was developed...
...trim green Breguet planes, entered by the French Ministère de la Guerre, won the Liberty Motors Trophy Race (for observation planes) by a piece of teamwork, common enough in bicycle and running races, but unheard-of in the air. The first Breguet (Pilot, Captain d'Oisy) roared into the lead as a pacemaker, led off U. S. Pilot Henderson, while the second (Pilot, Captain Lemaitre) shot from behind...