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...headwinds over Europe upset that. Just 25 miles short of the goal, at 12 minutes past the 26th hour, the Wasp motor gasped for gas. Endres landed the plane in a rough field, damaging the undercarriage and propeller. Thence another ship whisked the flyers to Budapest's Matjasfoeld airdrome where, amid a great throng, waited Premier Stephen Bethlen & Cabinet, U. S. Minister Nicholas Roosevelt and Backer Szalay who had arrived from the U. S. a few days earlier with Endres' wife and small son; and Capt. Magyar's mother, an aged villager who had not seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: For Hungary | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

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