Word: stoppani
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five weeks ago Captain Mario Stoppani, Italian Royal Air Force ace, flew 4,230 miles from Cadiz, Spain to Caravellas, Brazil, breaking the previous non-stop distance record for seaplanes (3,435 miles). Fortnight later three other Italian planes, one of them piloted by Benito Mussolini's son, Bruno, emulated his example by hopping to Brazil. Last week Stoppani set out to fly back. Two hours from the coast of Brazil one of his motors failed, he turned back, dumped gasoline, promptly caught fire. He and four companions jumped, landed in a sea covered with flaming gasoline. When...
High. Last week a 3,700 h.p. Alfa-Romeo Cant Zappata, with Italian Pilots Stoppani & Di Mauro, carrying 4.400 Ib. of pay load, rose to 29,344 ft. (over 5½ mi.) above Trieste-a record for seaplanes and additional support for the assertion of National Aeronautic Association's president. Charles Horner. that Italy leads the U. S. in aviation "by a substantial margin...
France's best was Andre Japy, who in a 100-h. p. monoplane made round-trip flights from Paris to Oslo, Tunis and Oran, Algeria, a four-stop flight from France to French Indo-China. The awards for Italy were divided among Mario Stoppani and two others. Stoppani set a seaplane distance record of 3,103 miles between Trieste and Berbera in British Somaliland...
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