Word: villacoublay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France. At Villacoublay, second largest airport in France, a mammoth hangar collapsed, killed Antoine Rouverie, general manager of the field. During the three worst days of the storm, all commercial flying ceased in northern France...
...Villacoublay, French Government airdrome, saw the completion of a seaplane with a 500-h.p. motor capable, it is said, of flying for 34 hours, and thus fitted for the Paris-New York flight. Two war veterans will fly it: Francis Coli and Paul Tarascon. The latter acquired a wooden leg in pre-War flying and later shot down eleven German planes in battle...
Sadi Lecointe, French airman, has been 923 feet 6 inches farther from Earth than anyone that ever lived on Earth. After elaborate training preparations (TIME, July 23) he broke Lieutenant Macready's (U. S. A.) world's altitude flying record above Villacoublay, France...