Word: lebrix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Costes record: shot down 13 enemy fighters during the War; served conspicuously in other air branches -artillery fire regulation, reconnoitering, day & night bombardment; given the Legion of Honor after his sixth plane victory; made an officer of the Legion and voted the U. S. 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...
...Flyer LeBrix was the more forehanded in the race. He took off from the Istres Airdrome near Marseilles, long before dawn of a freezing day last week. He was well over the Mediterranean towards Tunis when press despatches reached Flyer Costes at Paris...
...only a few miles from Paris, the motor failed altogether and his plane clattered among the trees. In the rip-up he strained his leg, the only leg left him by the War. Helped to the ground, he exclaimed: "This is a fine to-do! I wonder how far LeBrix is by this time?" Joseph LeBrix had passed Tunis, was almost in Cairo...
...Bolivia, Flyer LeBrix could constrain himself no longer. It was at the French minister's reception to them, and before that formal throng he loudly complained that his companion was making himself the hero of the flight. The Latins there were vexed with his apparent unmannerliness...
They flew to Washington where, at the French ambassador's, Joseph LeBrix tried to punch Dieudonné Costes' nose in the American manner. The French foot-fighting against the one-legged flyer manifestly would have been dastardly. For appearance's sake they restrained the show of their animosity as they flew across the U. S., as they sailed by ship to Japan, as again they flew across Asia and Europe, to Le Bourget Field at Paris. And there Flyer LeBrix had his great say. It was, harshly: "At last I have finished being valet to Costes...