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Cover: Illustration by Michael Doret...
...also a champion cook, whose fame has spread all over Provence, his inn is the stopping place for most of the pilots who are training for record-breaking flights, and his walls are a gallery of photographs of the first flyers of France. Here have stayed Rossi, Codos, Bossoutrot, Doret, Mermoz, Le Brix, the late lamented Boucher, all the bright company of those whose deeds have kept France in the van of aviation; and here, too, Delmotte, chunky, red-faced, and carefree, together with his dog, lived while attempting to break the record over the measured kilometer, with...
...Ajaccio with a Corsican bandit. In 1929 came the Wall Street crash and Publisher Coty's divorce. His two papers, the conservative Figaro and blatant Ami du Peuple, have lost money consistently. He lost more in subsidizing the unsuccessful Paris-Tokyo non-stop flight of Aviators Lebrix & Doret. The Coty perfume business has felt Depression. And last week the former Mme Coty obtained a court order forcing François Coty to pay her an additional...
...Hyphen 11 got away first into the rising sun. Ten minutes later the Question Mark gave chase, overtook Lebrix & Doret beyond Brussels. Near Dusseldorf a fuel line became clogged and the Question Mark made a forced landing. Lebrix & Doret, whose plane had no radio, pushed on into dirty weather over Russia in the belief that their rival still led them...
East of Moscow the fog and rain grew worse. It was much as it had been on the first flight, when the storms had beaten them down to the very treetops. At the end of 20 hr. the end came. It was near Ufa, 700 mi. beyond Moscow. Doret bailed out, landed safely with his 'chute. Lebrix and Mesmin died in the crash of the Hyphen II. Doret was vaguely quoted as saying that the engine had exploded...