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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Air Conclusion | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: At Mitchel Field | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

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