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Swaying foolishly in a strong southeast wind, 16 swollen gas bags floated up from Basle, Switzerland, one day last week. It was the 21st James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. Favorite teams were led by Belgium's Ernest de Muyter, four-time winner of Bennett races, and Ward Tunte Van Orman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber aeronautical engineers, also a fourtime winner. But last to come to earth was the U. S. Navy's entry, piloted by Lieuts. Thomas G. W. Settle and Wilfred Bushnell, winners of last year's U. S. meet. After...
Meanwhile in the Belgica Capt. Ernest de Muyter (fourtimes winner) with Leon Coeckelbaerg fought lightning, snow and loss of altitude. All ballast gone, Coeckelbaerg slid down the drag rope into a tree to lighten the load, but the bag settled at Adams, Mass., a 435 mi. mark. For the co-pilot's heroism, disqualification was threatened...
From the outset only three aeronauts had a chance: Ernest de Muyter, who won the race in 1920, '22, '23, '24, Belgium, Wade T. Van Orman, U. S., Lawrence Bienaime, France. A full day after the race had begun, although only six of the 18 gasbags were in the air, this order was unchanged...
...reckoning and the race was actually between the U. S. and Belgium. On the third day Van Orman, piloting the Goodyear III, dropped into the Atlantic after covering 441.18 miles. He and his equipment were saved by the German ship Vaterland. Next came the news that De Muyter had landed at Quemper in France, having covered a distance of 422.54 miles. It was thought that the American's landing in the sea disqualified him and it seemed certain that the Belgian would be awarded the victory-but one balloon remained unaccounted...
...third day M. Veenstra, Belgian's second string, came down in Spain, 800.miles from his starting point and was forthwith declared the winner. Later, however, it was declared that he too landed on the sea and it appeared likely that De Muyter after all would be declared the winner, although Van Orman, who had landed unassisted, was preparing to dispute his claim...