Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having bubbled over with affectionate excitement for Charles Augustus Lindbergh a month before, Paris last week settled down to a steady schedule of festive welcome for its second detachment of transatlantic air guests-Heroes Byrd, Acosta, Noville, Balchen, Chamberlin and Levine. The last two arrived from Berlin via Austria and Czechoslovakia in their Bellanca ship, Columbia. The first four arrived hollow-eyed and shaken after their fog-ridden cruise, anxious night and wet landing in the America. In Paris they had difficulty mixing sleep with hospitality and with their natural inclinations to make the most of a great moment...
Inspired, many a rewrite-man manufactured intimate details of the landing of the intrepid flyers, the hearty welcome by the crowds. Many a headline screamed: BYRD IN PARIS...
Lieut. Balchen, 28, the youngest member of the America's crew, was born in Tviet Hopedale, Norway, received his flying training at the Norwegian Naval Academy. It was he who suggested to Commander Byrd that he use skis instead of wheels on his polar plane. Lieut. Balchen came to the U. S. in 1926 to serve as test pilot and engineer in Anthony Fokker's company...
Associated Press. After a celebration, people dislike to be told that they were celebrating an error. Newspapers that use the Associated Press service were temporarily jubilant last week because they published the following "scoop": "Paris, July 1.-(By A.P.)-Commander Richard Byrd's transatlantic monoplane America landed at Issy Les Moulineaux, near Paris, early this morning...
...matter of fact, Commander Byrd and his crew were at that time lost in the fog and did not alight on the sea near Ver-sur-Mer until two hours later. In a tardy checking of the false report, an A. P. correspondent found a lone watchman at Issy Les Moulineaux, who had neither seen nor heard an airplane...