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...Passed bills bestowing Distinguished Service Medals upon Russel N. Boardman and John L. Polando for their 5,011-mi. non-stop flight from New York to Istanbul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 13, 1932 | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

...small Pilot Hinkler (5 ft. 4 in.) is best remembered for his 15½-day flight from England to Australia in 1928 (a record which stood for two years), although for years before that he had been doing astonishing things with light airplanes, among them the first non-stop flight from London to Turin in a 35 h. p. Baby Avro. For such exploits he was temporarily dubbed "Sir Jockey." Recently he was accorded casual notice for two remarkable solo flights, both in a light Puss Moth: New York to Kingston, Jamaica; and Natal, Brazil to Bathurst, British Gambia, West Africa?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Britain's Best | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

...wished to represent, he dined publicly in Ajaccio with a Corsican bandit. In 1929 came the Wall Street crash and Publisher Coty's divorce. His two papers, the conservative Figaro and blatant Ami du Peuple, have lost money consistently. He lost more in subsidizing the unsuccessful Paris-Tokyo non-stop flight of Aviators Lebrix & Doret. The Coty perfume business has felt Depression. And last week the former Mme Coty obtained a court order forcing François Coty to pay her an additional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Catastrophic Coty | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...lost the rest of its toos, it has trod on them to oblivion. Soon the use of the horse will become a fond memory, along with the mustacho cup; and legend will have Lady Godiva ride a tricycle through the storm of ticker tape that greeted her for her non-stop flightiness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUST PLUGGING ALONG | 10/29/1931 | See Source »

Transatlantic- The Graf Zeppelin returned to Friedrichshafen non-stop from Pernambuco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights of the week, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

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