Word: doudou
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...Moulmein, Burma. The old Moulmein pagoda heard the shriek of wind against wires as the Frenchmen's plane roared to the ground with no one in control. The plane was demolished, mail was lost, Rossi fractured his pelvic bone, the hopes of Le Brix to outdo ''Doudou" Costes, who preëmpted the kudos of their 1928 world flight and thereby created a personal enmity, were shattered...
...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...