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...grimy men clambered out of the machine, then scrambled for a barricade, for threatening natives were running at them. The aviators gestured placatingly. They tried to pantomime that they were Frenchmen. Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Jacques Bellonte, that they had flown from Paris in an attempt to make a non-stop record over Europe and Asia, and that the exhaustion of their gasoline and oil had forced them to land willy-nilly. The Chinese insisted that they were Russian spies. Was not their plane painted the red of the Soviets? And away they took the Frenchmen 40 miles to Tsitsihar...
...CRIMSON is gratified to announce that Dr. Hu Flung Huey has landed safely in Agua Caliente, Mexico, after a non-stop flight from Honolulu. The following collect telegram from the Oriental grid score dopester is self-explanatory...
...York and get storm signals. It seemed as though storm signals were all around us." At Miles City, Mont., their refueling plane passed them gas in milk cans. Over mountains forest fire smoke troubled them. In any case, 7,200 or 10.000 miles, the Sun God covered more distance non-stop than any other humans have ever done.* Chief significance: repeated refuelings in varied weather...
...rested awhile and returned to Roosevelt Field in the fastest transcontinental time?17 hrs.. 38 min., 16 sec. Total flying time for the round trip: 36 hrs., 48 min., 48 sec. Said he: "I do not think a transcontinental flight need be a non-stop affair. This, too, is still impractical and must be classed as a stunt. . . . Frankly, the only reason I made non-stop flights was to draw closer attention to the feasibility of flying across the continent, with stops or without...
...other aviator-automobilists, Round-the-World-Flyers Leigh Wade amd Linton Wells, made a non-stop Packard trip from Los Angeles to New York...