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Heroes at the luncheon included Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, first non-stop trans Atlantic aviator, who flew with the late Sir John Alcock from Newfoundland to Ireland eight years before Lindbergh; slightly grizzled Louis Bleriot, first to fly the English Channel, now a millionaire French planemaker; Squadron Leader Augustus H. Orlebar, holder of the world's speed record (357.7 m. p. h.); Flight Lieut. H. R. D. Waghorn, winner of the Schneider Cup (1929). Wingless heroes included Herbert Wilbur ("Bunny") Austin, British tennis player; Robert Cedric Sherriff, insurance broker, author of Journey's End; John L. Baird, inventor...
...fell into the Caribbean in an attempted flight from Mexico to Buenos Aires (TIME, May 19). Last week Col. Roberto Fierro, cool, cautious, conservative, after days of patient preparation, took off from Roosevelt Field, L. I. and 16 hr. 35 min. later landed on Valbuena Field, Mexico City-first non-stop flight from New York to the Mexican capital.* Mexico was delirious with joy, not alone over the actual feat, but also because the pall of misfortune hanging over Mexican aviation had been pierced...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew non-stop from Washington, D. C. to Mexico City in his Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis, in 27 hr. He lost hours searching for the course from Tampico to Valbuena Field. †August 1920. Maj. Theodore McAuley, San Diego-Jacksonville, 19 hr. 10 min. September 1922, Lieut. James Harold Doolittle, Jacksonville-San Diego...
...Dieudonne ("Doudou") Costes of France went last week the Harmon Trophy, awarded (in Paris) by the International League of Aviators. The league was founded in 1926 by Clifford Harmon, to recognize and reward the persons who do each year's outstanding air work. Costes' 1929 work: non-stop flight from Paris to Tsitsihar, Manchuria, 4.910 mi. (farthest); Hanoi, Indo-China, to Paris, 4 days, 18 hrs. (fastest); closed circuit, 4.987 mi., around Marseilles (longest); with one ton cargo 2,048 mi. (farthest) for 18 hrs. i min. 20 sec. (longest). The 1927 award went to Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Later Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Jacques Bellonte sent a despatch claiming that between Paris and their Manchurian stop they had covered approximately 6,160 miles, thus surpassing the 4,500-mile, Italy-to-Brazil non-stop record...