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Into the Night. At 9:30 that night, Veteran Pilot Jorge Guzmán taxied LAMSA's Flight 202 out to the end of the runway and revved up his engines for the nonstop flight to Mexico City, 430 mountain-studded miles to the southeast. Guzmán tested his flaps and rudder, then gave his DC-3 the gun and soared up into the chill, starry night. At 12,000 feet he seemed to feel something wrong. "It didn't feel like anything serious," he later explained, "but there was a vibration somewhere in the back...
...this critical moment, Captain Bowen appeared on Break the Bank (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC-TV), answered a string of questions about aviation, finally got to the big one: What was the name of the B50 that last year made the first nonstop flight around the world? For answering Lucky Lady, he won the biggest cash jackpot in TV history-$8,870. As Mrs. Bowen packed last week to follow her husband overseas, Captain Bowen observed: "This seems like God has answered my prayer...
...dozen tomatoes, five dozen apples, five dozen oranges, six dozen eggs, four gallons of milk, 100 tea bags, coffee, lettuce, celery, tomato and orange juice, water, sugar, salt & pepper. -In March 1949, one of LeMay's B-50s, Lucky Lady II, flew 94 hours and 23,452 miles nonstop around the world from Carswell Air Force Base, Texas. It refueled from B-29 tankers over the Azores, Dhahran (Saudi Arabia), Manila and Hawaii. *An Ohio State classmate: Milton Caniff, creator of comic-strip Airmen Terry, Flip Cor-kin, Steve Canyon. -A bad sinus condition years ago paralyzed some...
...Nonstop. On the Isle of Wight, one of the competitors in a cross-country foot race organized for inmates of the Camp Hill Borstal reformatory failed to turn up when the outing was over...
Within hours of the first crash, a French government commission was on the way to Bahrein to investigate. It was headed by Maurice Bellonte, of the famed Coste-Bellonte team which flew nonstop from Paris to New York in 1930. There were rumors that in each crash the altimeter was faulty, but an early report from Airman Bellonte said that in the second plane at least, the instruments were "in good working order...