Word: caudron
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...Michel Detroyat. Close friend of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, whom he was instrumental in rescuing from Le Bourget crowds after the New York-Paris flight in 1927, Detroyat is France's best stunt flyer, has twice almost killed himself in crashes. Last week, flying a tiny blue Caudron-Renault in which he set the world's onetime land-plane speed record of 312 m.p.h., he walked off with the preliminary Greve Trophy Race. This victory made Detroyat the overwhelming favorite, though no foreign flyer hadwever i won the Thompson Trophy before. This thought did not bother the burly...
...long been the goal of a heavyset, square-jawed Frenchman named Raymond Delmotte. One day last week, after a year of trying, 40-year-old Pilot Delmotte made five more unsuccessful attempts. On the sixth try, with his fox terrier mascot "Tailwind" in the cockpit, he shot his Caudron Renault monoplane four times over a measured course at Istres, zipped so fast (321 m.p.h.) on one lap that he averaged 314.1 m.p.h. for the four, set a new record. To Pilot Delmotte, for his pains, the French Air Ministry promptly awarded...
...this and bring it to a landing with the engine shut off. The fifth class is the same machine, but with it the aviator must learn to turn corners and execute other more difficult moves. Vol-planing is attempted in the next stage of development, which calls for a Caudron biplane or a Bleriot monoplane. A height of 2000 feet is attained. Next the candidate takes an 80-horsepower model and flies as far and as high as he wishes. He is now ready for his brevet, for which he must undergo three tests: first, stay an hour...