Word: doudou
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet angrily sprang Dieudonne ("Doudou") Costc (Paris-Dallas 1930). The whole business was clear to him! France had spent millions on its Aeropostale service which holds exclusive rights to enter various South American airports. Also it had exclusive right to use the Azores as a seaplane base when Aeropostale lines in Europe, Africa and South America should be linked by air. Now Italy wanted to destroy those advantages so that she might compete...
Early one morning last week the Hyphen II was wheeled out on Le Bourget Field for a takeoff. Pilot Lebrix paused in his preparations to scowl at the sight of another ship, pushed from a nearby hangar. It was the famed Question Mark which Capt. Dieudonne ("Doudou") Coste flew to the U. S. last year. And there was "Doudou" himself, stocky, sleek-haired, grinning. No one would be more pleased to see Lebrix beaten in a race. The two men had been enemies ever since their spectacular co-flight around the world in 1927, at the end of which Lebrix...
Inspector General. Aside from their feats of flying the Atlantic cleanly, points of resemblance between Charles Augustus Lindbergh and Dieudonné ("Doudou") Coste are few. But last week arose a new one. Much as Col. Lindbergh became technical adviser for T. A. T. and Pan American Airways. Capt. Coste an nounced himself inspector general of lines (technical adviser) for the French air transport system, Air Union...
Hero v. Hero. In contrast to the obscurity that was Lindbergh's prior to May 1927, "Doudou" Coste was France's idol of the air long before he started his latest flight. By the same token, perhaps, France was not quite so delirious with astonished rejoicing over Coste's success as it had been upon Lindbergh's dramatic landing at Le Bourget. A veteran War flyer, 38 years old, with six world records in flying already to his credit, Coste had instilled some of his own confidence into his people. They knew and shared...
...Dieudonne ("Doudou") Costes of France went last week the Harmon Trophy, awarded (in Paris) by the International League of Aviators. The league was founded in 1926 by Clifford Harmon, to recognize and reward the persons who do each year's outstanding air work. Costes' 1929 work: non-stop flight from Paris to Tsitsihar, Manchuria, 4.910 mi. (farthest); Hanoi, Indo-China, to Paris, 4 days, 18 hrs. (fastest); closed circuit, 4.987 mi., around Marseilles (longest); with one ton cargo 2,048 mi. (farthest) for 18 hrs. i min. 20 sec. (longest). The 1927 award went to Charles Augustus Lindbergh...