Word: karachi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Distinguished Flying Cross (with Joseph Lebrix) in 1928 for a globe-circling adventure which took them from Paris to St. Louis (Africa), to Port Natal (Brazil), all over South America, thence to New Orleans, Washington, San Francisco, then by boat to Tokyo, by air to China, Indo-China, Calcutta, Karachi, Aleppo, Syria, Athens, Marseilles and home to Paris. On his recent flight home from Tsitsihar with Bellonte, Costes went by way of French Indo-China and broke his own record from Hanoi to Paris (4 days, 18 hours) by seven hours. He is now associated with Louis-Charles Breguet, designer...
...long), both huger than the Graf Zeppelin. Purpose of construction was to prove that airships would be useful to travel between the widely separated British dominions. In anticipation mooring masts have been built at Cardington, England (where the R-100 was put together), at Ismailia, Egypt, Karachi, India (where there is a hangar), Groutville, South Africa, and St. Hubert, Canada. As both ships were nearing completion this summer, dire were the prophecies that they were not airworthy, that they would crack up. So impoverished Englishmen, troubled by the spending of $10,000,000 on the ships and their accessories, were...
...last week: "Off for India. Expect to be back in a week." By the time recipients had their word from this "duchess of flights," she had packed eight small suitcases into her Fokker and with pilot and mechanic was on her 10,000-mile way from Folkestone, Eng., to Karachi, India. Last year she attempted the same trip in the same plane, but was forced down at Bushire on the Persian Gulf. Flying is the Duchess' avocation. Professionally she is an electro-physicist of repute, and once loved to chase eagles among mountain crags...
...half tons and carrying 1,000 gallons of gasoline down a special two-mile runway at Cranwell Airdrome in Lincolnshire. They took the air and headed in a southeasterly direction. Twenty-seven hours later they were seen over Bagdad, still going. Forty-eight hours out they passed over Karachi in India with still 1,170 mi. to go to their destination, Bangalore. Two hours later the great plane reappeared over Karachi and landed. Head winds had eaten up its gasoline on the last half of the journey. Had the plane carried a radio, it could have been notified...
Trans-Hemisphere Transport. For two years European nations have been sending flyers to scout airways across Africa, across Asia. Last week England utilized its amassed information. Its Imperial Airways started weekly commercial service from Croydon Airport, near London, to Karachi, India, by way of Alexandria, Egypt. First passenger was Sir Samuel Hoare, British Air Minister, one of the few bureaucrats who actually fly.* He quit the India journey at Alexandria, to inspect the Egyptian section of the proposed Alexandria-Cape Town British trunk airway...