Word: lebrix
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...have found a general feeling of apprehension for the safety of Colonel Lindbergh, not only among non-fliers but in conversation with experienced aviators. At the recent Washington dinner to the French good-will fliers, Costes and Lebrix, Colonel Lindbergh's flights over Central and South American jungles were the subject of conversation, and it was the consensus that he should quit that sort of thing...
...Into the President's study marched French Ambassador Claudel with two young men, one black-haired, sleek and wiry, the other burlier, rougher of hair, braver of necktie. They were the far-flown Lindberghs of France, Lieutenant Dieudonne* Costes and Lieut.-Commander Joseph Lebrix, just in from Paris via Africa, South America, Mexico, New Orleans and Montgomery, Ala. They had covered 22,843 mi. and, after handshaking and photography on the South Lawn, they soon hopped off again for Manhattan, whence they thought they might fly to San Francisco before going home. Said Flier Lebrix: "We do not want...
Dieudonne Costes and Joseph Lebrix dropped out of the sky and added the keys of the city of New Orleans to their watch chains. Famed flyers, they have finally worked northward to the U. S. From France across the South Atlantic, up through South America, they have been spreading the gospel of French goodwill. Via Pensacola, Fla., they aim for Manhattan. Thence, given good luck, they will complete an immense wandering with a non-stop flight to Paris...
...waited. They were the two most famous active airplanes in the world today, the Spirit of St. Louis and the Nungesser-Coli. They waited while their pilots were shaking hands in Panama. Col. Lindbergh (resting for several days) greeted with the most energetic approval Frenchmen Dieudonne Costes and Joseph Lebrix, first airmen to fly the South Atlantic. (TIME, Oct. 24.) Panama City displayed the triple red white and blues of France, of Panama, of the U. S. Unwearied by the recent outburst of welcome to the northern flyer Panamans sang, cheered, banqueted the adventurers from the East and South...
Costes and Lebrix are ambassadors of French good will. Pushed 2,700 miles over the South Atlantic by a humming Hispano-Suiza motor they have worked their way slowly to and from South American cities, guests for the glory of France. Irregularly northward bound they will stop at Venezuela, Colombia, Costa Rica, U. S. cities, eventually Manhattan...