Word: farman
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Died. Henry Farman, 84, Englishman who became one of the first flying Frenchmen (99 ft. in 1907), champion cyclist, auto racer, painter, planemaker, first man to fly a heavier-than-air machine over New York City (1908); of a heart ailment; in Paris. In 1908 Farman won the 50,000-franc Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize by flying (in a closed circle) the first kilometer-in-air over Europe, nine months later made the first city-to-city flight, a hop of 17 miles from Chålons-sur-Marne to Reims. One of the first designers to utilize such basic devices...
Goliath and the Bike-Racer. A descendant of the original French aeronauts who bounced from Paris to London in a converted 75-m.p.h. Farman "Goliath" bomber after World War I, Air France was formed in 1933 from five struggling companies. Frenchmen had already pioneered commercial routes through Europe and Africa, flown mail over South American jungles in convoys of three chattering airplanes in order, as one pilot put it, to be sure that "at least one would arrive." The Depression and cutthroat competition forced the small French lines to band together as Air France, 25% government-owned...