Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Depreciation reserve (to allow for purchase of new plane after 1.500 flying...
Repairs to plane not covered by insurance...
...eleventh plane flew across the North Atlantic last week, ten years to the day after the first non-stop transoceanic flight. Three young Frenchmen?Jean Assolant, René Lefevre and Armeno Lotti. Jr.? made last week's crossing, from Old Orchard, Me., to Oyamers, near Santander. Spain, 3,128 flying miles, in 29 hr. 52 min. Neither crossing, distance nor time was exceptional...
...flight was the first accomplished this season, and the first North Atlantic crossing ever made by a French plane, a Bernard monoplane named Yellow Bird, with a null motor. A 160-lb. stowaway, one Arthur Schreiber, 22. traveled in it, to the hazard of the crew and the handicapping of the flight...
...Frenchmen trying to fly across the ocean as a useless hazard, last week decided to "forgive" the Yellow Birdmen. But at Seville, Spain, two other Frenchmen, Captain Louis Coudouret and Louis Mallou had to abandon their attempt to fly from Seville to New York. Spanish officials had locked the plane in its hangar, to please the French government...