Word: fonck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sikorsky biplane, Ville de Paris, built in 1927 for Captain Rene Fonck's intended flight to Paris and lately bought by American International Airways, would, it was promised, undertake a flight from some U. S. airport to Santiago, Chile. Objects: the world's non-stop flight record, Pan-American friendship...
...section given over to personal letters in TIME, March 7 you make the following statement: Comparatively "poor men" who have appeared on TIME'S cover: . . . Pope Pius XI, Alfred E. Smith, Paul von Hindenburg, Andrew Volstead, Doctor Ray Lyman Wilbur, Admiral Togo, Rene Fonck, Helen Wills, Joseph Conrad, Carrie Chapman Catt, Roy Chapman Andrews, Eugene O'Neill, John Joseph Pershing, Abd-el-Krim, Ramsay Macdonald. If these be poor men then us ordinary mortals must be paupers...
Comparatively "poor men" who have appeared on TIME's cover: Anton Lang, John L. Lewis, Pope Pius XI, Alfred E. Smith, Paul von Hindenburg, Andrew Volstead, Doctor Ray Lyman Wilbur, Admiral Togo, René Fonck, Helen Wills, Joseph Conrad, Carrie Chapman Catt, Roy Chapman Andrews, Eugene O'Neill, John Joseph Pershing, Abd-el-Krim, Ramsay MacDonald and Leon Trotzky...
Captain René Fonck, War ace president of the Aeronautic League of France: "A Manhattan perfumer, a Manhattan lawyer and I filed papers at Albany, N. Y., last week for the American and Overseas Aeronautical Corp., a company capitalized at $150,000 to back another effort by me, next summer, to fly from New York to Paris Hotelkeeper Raymond C. Orteig's $25,000 prize offer was 'merely incidental' to our plan. I intend to use another ship made by the builders of the S-35, the trimotored Sikorsky which turned a cartwheel as we were taking...
...Bartlett, son of a Connecticut schoolmaster, seconded by Lieut. Byron J. Connell, son of a Monongahela River lockmaster. With these two in the planes numbered for convenience 1 and 2, flew five others, including veterans of the transatlantic flight of the NC-4, the Hawaiian flight and René Fonck's catastrophe...