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...First woman to fly non-stop across...
started from Teterboro. N. J. on a 1,200-mi., non-stop solo flight to Miami,' Fla. Headwinds forced him down at Charleston...
When Russia established a base at the North Pole last month (TIME, May 31 & June 14), many were skeptical about the Soviet's announced intention of inaugurating a Moscow-San Francisco airline. Last week skeptics were confounded when a Russian plane nonchalantly flew non-stop from Moscow to the U. S. via the North Pole...
...Dictator Stalin chose, not Sigismund Levanevsky as announced, but three other "Heroes of the Soviet Union"-Pilot Valeri Pavlovitch Chkaloff, 33, Co-Pilot Georgi Phillipovitch Baidukoff, 30, and Navigator Alexander Vassielievitch Beliakoff, 40. Last year this trio flew the same plane on a 5,858-mi. non-stop circuit of the Soviet Arctic. Because Levanevsky's failure on a transpolar flight two years ago brought unfavorable publicity, this year's venture was kept a dark secret long after the red and grey plane left Moscow. Then a Canadian radio station plucked the news from the ether that...
...fought with the Red Guard in the War, first made news when he flew to the rescue of U. S. Flyer Jimmie Mattern in Siberia in 1933. Levanevsky later helped rescue the members of the wrecked Chelyuskin expedition. Two years ago he was forced back while attempting a non-stop flight from Moscow to San Francisco. Same year he and a companion flew in easy stages from San Francisco to Moscow via Bering Straits...