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...filers, Captain Maurice Rossi and Lieutenant Paul Codos, were forced to terminate their trans-Atlantic dash at the air field where last summer they started their record-breaking non-stop flight to Syria...
...meager reports indicated that the two men flew from Djibouti across the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and 900 mi. northeast into the Great Arabian Desert, almost to the Persian Gulf; that they found walled ruins in such a hilly terrain they dared not land and returned non-stop to Djibouti; that they would attempt the trip again. Unknown to history, even in legend the Queen of Sheba emerges only as a resplendent traveler to the court of Solomon. In varying forms the Bible, Koran and Talmud all tell the tale. According to I Kings 10, she came to Solomon...
...before they could take off. Arriving in Lisbon, Colonel Lindbergh discussed the possibility of a transatlantic terminus there with a representative of Pan American Airways, for which he has been making his European tour, and two representatives of British Imperial Airways. He denied rumors that he would attempt a non-stop flight back to the U. S., justified his reticence about his plans on the ground that many aviators have been killed because they felt obliged to make a flight, once announced, even though conditions became unfavorable. While newshawks continued to guess at his plans, he & Mrs. Lindbergh picnicked...
...Coast were on the move. At Quantico the 7th Regiment of Marines, Colonel Richard P. ("Terrible Terry") Williams commanding, studied maps of Havana and Santiago, practiced the "occupation and pacification of towns," while awaiting overseas orders. When a formation of six big Navy seaplanes whizzed over Cuba in a non-stop record flight from Norfolk to Panama natives thought U. S. forces had already intervened...
...PLANES ON MYSTERY HOP. Into the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics crackled their progress-over Pamlico Sound, passing the western tip of Cuba, over Grand Cayman. Not until Panama was the nearest land would the Bureau admit that Squadron 5F was out for the world's record for a non-stop flight-in-formation. After 25 hr. of methodical flight, five of the 5F sextet swooped down on the naval base at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, 1,788 nautical miles from Norfolk-160 nautical miles better than Italo Balbo's record hop with ten planes across the South Atlantic...