Word: mermoz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mermoz, surveyor of the Casablanca-Dakar line across the Sahara, the South American line between Buenos Aires and Santiago; veteran of a dozen smashups; who, before he was lost in the South Atlantic, confessed to Saint Exupéry: "It's worth it, it's worth the final smashup...
...Guillaumet, airmail pilot on the route surveyed by Mermoz, who, forced down in the Andes, became "the author of his own miracle" in as heroic a trek as any in exploring history. Said Pilot Guillau-met: "I swear that what I went through, no animal would have gone through...
...champion cook, whose fame has spread all over Provence, his inn is the stopping place for most of the pilots who are training for record-breaking flights, and his walls are a gallery of photographs of the first flyers of France. Here have stayed Rossi, Codos, Bossoutrot, Doret, Mermoz, Le Brix, the late lamented Boucher, all the bright company of those whose deeds have kept France in the van of aviation; and here, too, Delmotte, chunky, red-faced, and carefree, together with his dog, lived while attempting to break the record over the measured kilometer, with a 375 h.p. motor...
Squarely behind Coste stood his compatriot Jean Mermoz (Africa-Brazil 1930) and the Spanish delegate Ignacio...
Natal-Dakar. Although the South Atlantic has been flown many times from east to west, the eastward route has yet to yield passage to an airplane. Last week Jean Mermoz, pilot for Aeropostale, and two companions took off from Natal, Brazil, flew 16 hours, landed 350 mi. short of Dakar, Africa with a leaky oil line. Flyers and mail were picked up by the despatch boat Phocée, but the seaplane had to be abandoned. Mermoz recently flew the first westbound mail from Senegal to Natal, pioneering a prospective Aeropostale service (TIME...