Word: lebrix
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...weary metal bird, singing a slow song. The wheels rolled over the ground quickly, then slowly. The wheels stopped, the propeller stopped its slow spinning, and the two men got out of their airplane. Both of them were smiling. "Costes!'' yelled the people in the crowd. "Lebrix . . . Lebrix. . . ." Then they ran and lifted the men on their shoulders and carried them off the field...
...taken Dieudonne Costes and Joseph Lebrix a little more than six days to complete the Tokyo to Paris (10,370 mi.) lap of the round-the-world flight which they started in October, with a hop across the South Atlantic. They had dallied in the U. S. and crossed the Pacific, which no man has ever spanned by air, in a boat. Their last spurt broke all speed records for the journey...
...turned out in full force. Government officials cried and kissed the aviators; the older ones had never expected to see them again. People in Paris stood outside their shops talking, laughing . . . you couldn't walk along the Champs Elysees. The Government decreed a special stamp for Costes and Lebrix...
Costes and Lebrix allowed a barber to remove the short stubble which appeared upon their faces since tonsuring in Tokyo; they learned that the ambassadors of 22 American republics were arranging an international reception for them; they said they would take a short rest and then fly across the Atlantic to New York...
...wooden table. A French notary legalized the record by stamping the Republic's seal upon the table. When the U. S. record of 1,093 loops in six hours was passed the crowd cheered as Frenchmen cheer champions. A Hispano-Suiza motor, the make used by Costes and Lebrix, and a Morane plane endured the strain...