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...year Congress gave the Cross to Capt. Herman Koehl, Major James C. Fitzmaurice and Civilian-Passenger Baron Gunther von Huenefeld, who were rescued by Pilot Balchen after their monoplane Bremen stranded on Greenly Island. Casting aside all pretense of subtlety, Congress then bestowed the Cross in turn on de Pinedo, Coste and Lebrix - all deserving flyers, thinks Writer Allen, but so are a score of others illogically excluded, among them: Balchen, Acosta, Chamberlin, the late Wilmer Stultz, Brock & Schlee, Yancey & Williams, Kingsford-Smith...
...confused with Francesco de Pinedo, Italian round-the-world flyer, is Francisco de Pineda, strong-armed Cuban convict. A confessed murderer serving a life term, Convict de Pineda is the Republic of Cuba's official death-dealer. He rejoices in the title of "Minister of Executions." Last week he was ordered to execute a former friend for a crime in which the Minister of Executions himself had admittedly been an accomplice...
...George V, at Sandringham, was delivered an all-British, six-wheeled motor car, built for maximum speed of 60 m. p. h. Col. Francesco de Pinedo, round-the-world Italian flyer in the ill-fated seaplanes Santa Maria and Santa Maria II (TIME, April 18, 1927), resigned as Chief of Italy's General Staff for Aviation. Successor: General Valle...
Other famed ocean rescues: Harry G. Hawker and Commander Mackenzie- Grieve, picked up between Newfoundland and Scotland, May, 1919; Commander John Rodgers and crew, near the Hawaiian Islands, September, 1925 (see map, p. 12); Ruth Elder and George Haldeman, near the Azores, October, 1927; Commander Francesco de Pinedo and crew, between Newfoundland and the Azores...
...Bert Hinkler as having accomplished 1928's greatest aeronautical achievement. He flew alone from England to Australia in 15 days, 12 hrs. (TIME, March 5, 1928). His reward: a gold medal like the ones the Federation has awarded in prior years to Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Commander Francesco de Pinedo, Sir Alan J. Cobham...