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Dates: during 1932-1932
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Last week, on the eighth day after he had left Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., for Warsaw, Polish-American Pilot Stanislaus Felix Hausner, too exhausted to talk, was rescued from his floating Bellanca by a tanker, 600 mi. off the coast of Portugal. Astonished airmen marvelled at his "dumb luck." Pilot Hausner's attractive wife, Martha, and the pastor of the Polish-Catholic Church in Newark, N. J., which they attended were joyful but not astonished. They remarked that Pilot Hausner had carried a medal of St. Christopher, patron saint of travelers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Prayer? Luck? | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

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