Word: viegas
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...there was no suggestion of hoax in the rescue at sea of Willy Rody, Christian Johanssen and Fernando Costa Viega whose Junkers monoplane Esa fell into the sea on their transatlantic flight from Portugal last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 21). A Norwegian freighter found them afloat off Cape Pine...
...took off from Juncal do Sol, near Lisbon last week to try the "uphill" route across the Atlantic, which only Coste & Bellonte have completed nonstop. The flyers were Willy Rody, a German who had spent his inheritance on the plane; Christian Johanssen, a German-naturalized Dane; and Fernando Costa Viega, Portuguese sportsman. Their plane, christened the Esa for Rody's bride, reached the Azores, headed out over the Great Circle course towards Newfoundland...
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