Word: maceio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, the ancient, lumbering Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, recently rebuilt, taxied nearly two miles on the sea off Port Lyautey, Morocco, finally got into the air, remained there with its crew of six under veteran Pilot Henri Guillaumet until it had reached Maceio, Brazil, a nonstop seaplane flight 154 miles longer than the record of 3,281 miles, established by Lieut. Commander Knefler McGinnis between Cristobal Harbor, C. Z. and San Francisco Bay in October...
...white monoplane glided down upon Maceio, Brazil, 125 mi. southwest of Pernambuco one day last week and a strapping Polish officer climbed out. He tried to explain to natives that his name was Stanislaus Skarzynski, that he had just flown across the ocean. Presently his story was confirmed. Cable dispatches, slower than the white monoplane, drifted in from Senegal, West Africa, stating that Capt. Skarzynski had taken off for South America...
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