Word: schlee
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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Flying the Stinson Detroiter monoplane, Pride of Detroit, which won the Ford Reliability Tour this year, businessman Edward F. Schlee (oil) and onetime airmail pilot William S. Brock set out to circle the globe in record time...
...merchants of that town he put his proposition. He would fly a plane alone to Rio de Janeiro, 4,600 miles, farther than any man had flown without touching the world. The merchants accepted, financed a Stinson Detroiter monoplane, similar to the plane in which Edward F. Schlee and William...