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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again Costes. Round and round a giant's circle, droning on through the Provence mistral with a log of slowly waning fuel and gradually mounting flying time, last week went the Question Mark, red-painted French Breguet airplane, in search of a new endurance record. Piloted by Dieudonné...
This flight perhaps made Costes flyer-of-the-year. Three months ago he set another world-record, for airplane distance, with Maurice Bellonte from Paris to Tsitsihar, Manchuria, an airline of 4,910 miles made in the same ship with a more powerful motor (TIME, Oct. 14).
The formidable Costes record: shot down 13 enemy fighters during the War; served conspicuously in other air branches -artillery fire regulation, reconnoitering, day & night bombardment; given the Legion of Honor after his sixth plane victory; made an officer of the Legion and voted the U. S. Distinguished Flying Cross (with...
Washington Crash. For a pre-Christmas surprise to friends and family, three men planned a flight from Washington, D. C., to Massachusetts-Representative William Kirk Kaynor, who had never flown before, to visit his family; Stanley B. Lowe, his secretary, to get first sight of his newborn child; Arthur A...
Last week artistic Manhattan primped and prinked for a distinguished guest. Ivan Mestrovic was expected to appear in person at an exhibition of his recent sculptures. Then he cabled from Paris where he now has a studio; he could not come; next autumn he would bring sketches for two new...