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Soared up last week from Croyden aerodrome, near London, one of the huge trimotored Fokker planes which Financier Loewenstein habitually described as his "flying offices." In the crew's compartment were Pilot Ronald Drew and Mechanic Robert F. Little. In the "office" flew British Stenographer Miss Edith Clarke and French Stenographer Mlle. Paule Bidalon. Also on board were Valet Frederick Baxter Backster and Secretary J. O. Hodgson. Three mighty engines thrashed the air around the plane into a 300 mile an hour gale, thrusting the Fokker across the English Channel at 100 miles per hour...
...small plane taxied right up to the fence of the home at Bundaberg, Australia, last week. Flyer Harold (Bert) Hinkler stepped stiffly out and kissed his mother waiting there. That was the goal of his record-breaking solo flight from Croyden, England, to the Antipodes...
Rome (from, Croyden). . . . . .900 Victoria Point, Burma...
...recounted his Sindbadic journey. Between Croyden, which he had left three weeks ago without fuss, flurry or publicity, and Rome there was bad fog. He was glad to get beyond Rome. "After that for a long time I seem to remember nothing but endless stretches of desert. Once I sighted a group of Arab tents with tethered camels. A whole day I was lost in Libya and as I was trying to clear a space in the desert for a take off, a party of Arabs cantered up. It was an anxious moment. There were friendly overtures on my part...
...airplane flying from Paris to London were six ducks. While the plane sped at 100 miles an hour over the Straits of Dover, one duck laid an egg. Alighting at Croyden, the pilot had the egg boiled...