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...Mildenhall to give the flyers a royal sendoff. Queen Mary set foot in a plane for the first time when she inspected the U. S.-built Douglas entered by Royal Dutch Airlines (K. L. M.). Wales showed greatest interest in a small U. S.-built Monocoupe entered by John Polando and John H. ("Utica Jack") Wright. From Roscoe Turner the Prince received a model of the Boeing 247-0 on which the U. S. pinned its highest hopes for victory...
...Passed bills bestowing Distinguished Service Medals upon Russel N. Boardman and John L. Polando for their 5,011-mi. non-stop flight from New York to Istanbul...
...been almost a miracle. Nevertheless they prevailed upon their backer, Perfumer Francois Coty, to give them another plane just like the wrecked one for a second try at a Paris-Tokyo nonstop flight. Such a flight, 6,032-mi., would retrieve for France the distance record which Boardman & Polando had just wrested away by flying 5.011 mi. from New York to Istanbul...
...York-Istanbul Big-framed Russell N. Boardman, onetime cowboy, motorcyclist and wingwalker, and small John L. Polando, onetime garage mechanic, pulled the Bellanca monoplane Cape Cod up from Floyd Bennett Field, New York, and struck the well-travelled Great Circle Course to Europe. For two nights and a day the plane was unsighted from land or sea, even when it 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...
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