Word: dieudonne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Capt. Francisco Jiminez-with Capt. Ignacio Iglesias, from Spain towards India. After 27 hours flying a sandstorm forced them down in Mesopotamia. Germany: Capt. Herman Koehl-in the Bremen from Ireland to Labrador. France: Capt. Dieudonné Costés-with Lieut. Commander Joseph Lebrix, on a 35,000-mile world aerial tour. Italy: Capt. Ferrarin. In Latin America the best flyers were: Venezuela, Capt. Manuel Rios, Ecuador, Capt. Luis Mantilla; Bolivia, Major Santalla Estrella...
...Paul Painleve, who has twice been ousted from the Prime Ministry since the last election and was thought last week to be in danger of losing his seat as a Deputy. In the nick of time there arrived to bolster up his candidacy the two least likely persons imaginable: Dieudonné Costes and Joseph Lebrix, famed 'round-the-world aviators (TIME, April...