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...dropped a copy of the New York Times upon Le Bourget Field. It landed at Istanbul's Yeshilkeuy Airdrome, 5,011 mi. and 49 hr. from the takeoff. For their superb piloting and navigation, for being the first eastward transatlantic flyers since Lindbergh (1927) to reach their destination nonstop, President Mustafa Kemal Pasha bemedaled Pilots Boardman & Polando...
...Suiza engine roared with 650 h. p. Its narrow fuselage bore the legend Trait d'Union ("Hyphen"). In the cabin were short, squint-eyed Joseph Marie Lebrix, onetime flying partner (now enemy) of Dieudonné Coste; famed Aerobat Marcel Doret, and Mechanic René Mesnin. They were bound nonstop for Tokyo, 6,032 mi. away, farther than any plane had flown in a straight line. They were confident, because only a few weeks ago they had flown the Trait d'Union 6,560 mi. around a closed course for a world record. That took them 70 hr.; this...
Fourteen times has the North Atlantic been spanned nonstop by airplanes; the Pacific not once. Several flyers have reached Hawaii from the U. S.; Kingsford-Smith flew on from Hawaii to Suva and Australia. U. S. Army and Soviet flyers crossed Bering Sea, as did Post & Gatty a few weeks ago. But big money prizes offered for the first nonstop flight between U. S. and Japan have stayed uncollected after four tries in two years, chiefly because of the staggering fuel load needed for the 5,000-mi. route. Last week the fifth serious Tokyo trial got away from Seattle...
...Lantern. Here Author Gauvreau makes no attempt to obscure the figure of the late Editor Philip Payne of the Mirror, to whom the book is dedicated. Beaten at every turn by Comet (as Payne was frustrated in business and love), Wayne goes as a passenger on an attempted nonstop airplane flight to Moscow sponsored by his paper (as Payne went in Hearst's Old Glory}. Excerpt: "He wanted to win a signal victory, not through some unsavory sensation, but through an exploit that would redound to his honor and that of the Lantern. [He said:] . . . 'Peters...
...South American routes of Pan American Airways, Inc. The planes will be the largest amphibians in the world, the only larger heavier-than-air craft being the Dornier DO-X and the Junkers G-38. Powered by four 575 h.p. Hornet engines, the 8-40 is designed to fly nonstop 500 mi. with 40 passengers, 1,000 mi. with 20. In general conformation the 8-40 will resemble the 10-passenger Sikorsky amphibian now in common use. The wingspread, however, will be 114 ft.; the loaded weight, 30,000 lb.; and the 58-ft. hull will have the cabin facilities...