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...Miami as proudly as if she had not been nine months on the way from Switzerland. Her sponsors set a leisurely schedule of nine days for the northward flight, but a crankcase broke near Para, Brazil, and there the laggard sat down again to await a new motor from Natal...
...horseshoe that hangs in the navigation room of the great Dornier flying boat DO-X finally justified its presence last week when the ship roared across the South Atlantic and landed prettily at Natal, Brazil. It was seven months after she had set out from Lake Constance. Switzerland. The flight from Bolama, Portuguese Guinea, West Africa, whither the boat bestirred itself a month ago. was made in three jumps: a short one to the Cape Verde Islands where it remained nearly a week; a long and creditable one (1,400 mi.) to Fernando Noronha Island, 200 mi. off the Brazilian...
...remain in Natal about three weeks for overhauling and visit Rio de Janeiro for about a month before proceeding to the U. S. The famed elaborate furnishings, which had been pulled out of the cabin and shipped by steamer, will be restored in South America...
General Italo Balbo, whose famed triads leaped the Atlantic to Natal last January, was nearly drowned last week in the Bay of Naples when his seaplane struck a submerged buoy in taking off, and sank. Two months ago the general's adjutant, Col. Umberto Maddalena, and two flyers of the squadron were killed when a propeller snapped and tore through the cabin of their plane (TIME, March...
...plane in England which killed six. Lately he bought a specially built Lockheed monoplane, flew it from London to Cape Town in 6 1/2 days for a record, despite a crackup in Africa. Last week Commander Kidston and his friend Capt. T. A. Gladstone were flying from Johannesburg to Natal in a Puss Moth biplane. They encountered a duststorm in the Drakensberg Mountains. A wing was wrenched off. Commander Kidston and friend crashed. Both died...