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...drawing of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis bearing the caption: "Lindbergh was the 67th man to make a non-stop flight over the Atlantic Ocean." Three thousand indignant letter-writers demanded that Mr. Ripley apologize. He calmly informed them that Alcock and Brown made a nonstop flight between Newfoundland and Ireland in 1919, that 31 men were aboard the English dirigible Rj4 on its trans-Atlantic flight in 1919, that 33 men were aboard the German Z^-j (Los Angeles) on its trip from Germany to Lakewood...
...transatlantic flights of the British R34 in 1919 were 3,600 and 3,450 mi., both nonstop. The first really long dirigible flight was made in 1917 by the German L-59, from Jamoli, Bulgaria, via Smyrna, the Mediterranean and the Libyan desert into East Africa and return - about 4,500 mi. without a stop
...Norge's Spitzbergen to Teller flight of 2,700 mi. is the longest successful nonstop flight for nonrigid dirigibles. The French Dixmade had covered over 5,000 mi. and weathered an African hurricane, when she was lost with all hands in the Mediterranean...