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APRIL 19, 192S id not see them again until close to New Orleans, wherehree Navy Curtiss Hawks appeared to escort the Frenchmen o the landing field. The course followed on this last stagehad led via Tampico, along the coast to Galveston, and then over Beaumont and inland for 50 miles. February 8 was abad day for flying. Heavy clouds, rain and fog prevailed along the route to Washington and the experts were con-sequently against a resumption of the flight, but Costes decided to push on from Montgomery, to which place hehad flown from New Orleans. An escort started with him but was soon lost sight of, and after a p'eriod of anxiety at thecapital the Breguet landed after flying for 7 hrs. over 750 miles. Amongst the officials there to greet them were Major H. C. Davidson ; M. Claudel, the French Ambassador ; and Mr. Davis, Secretary of War. The President received them in During the brief stay at Marseilles awing was damaged, but they resumed in spite of this, and put down at Le Bourget with the wing badly stripped of the fabric. It was estimated that the crowd which greeted them numbered 100,000. They were officially received by M. Bokanowski, Minister of Commerce and Aeronautics, and taken through the streets of Paris through dense crowds to meet M. Poincare. The following morning they received the Legion of Honour from the President at Rambouillet. Costes said that they had flown 35,944 miles in 338 flying hours. The longest non-stop stage was at the start, from Paris to Senegal, Africa, 2,658 miles. When the landing was made for rmre fuel in China danger threatened the airmen from the Chinese, who fingered the machine all over and manifested their hostility to the Frenchmen. Had any display of resentment been shown an ugly incident might have happened . w. m m m The French World Flight : Lieut .- Com. Joseph Le Brix (left) and Capt. Dieudonne Costes, the two French pilots who have just com- pleted their mag- nificent 36,000- mile flight round the world. m Washington and festivities were generously accorded during the five days' visit. A flight of 2 hrs. over a distance of 225 miles preceded the arrival in New York on February 11. At this stage of the world tour 23,000 miles had been flown since the Paris start at an average speed of 107 m.p.h. in 215 hrs. flying time. Not once had the Hispano-Suiza engine given trouble, and the only mishap in any way was that already mentioned, the damaged propeller tip at Port Natal, Brazil, which Le Brix soon repaired. Fuel consumption had averaged 20 gallons to the hour for the first part of the flight and a little more for the complete tour to New York. A new 600 h.p. Hispano- Suiza engine was fitted for the remainder of the programme. The United States, from New York to San Francisco, was next flown with four stops, Leaving March 2, a landing was made at Sharon, Pennsylvania, the same day. Detroit was reached on March 4, Chicago March 5, and a fine non-stop trip of 1,149 miles in 11 hrs. 30 mins. on March 6 brought them to Rock Springs, whilst another 776 miles in 7 hrs. 46 mins. the next day linked up San Francisco. The distance flown right across the continent was 2,672 miles. A steamer was boarded next and the voyage made to Japan. Then began the record flight home to Paris in six days. Leaving Tokio April 8, the Frenchmen flew 2,620 miles to Hanoi, Indo-China, by the following afternoon, having made a landing en route at the Tonking frontier for re-fuelling. Another 1,400 miles in 13£ hrs. on April 10 brought them to Calcutta from Hanoi, then India was spanned to Karachi on April 11, a distance of 1,405 miles, with one intermediate landing at Jodhpur. On April 12 came Basra, another stage of over 1,000 miles, Aleppo, 1,480 miles, on April 12-13, Athens, April 13, 840 miles ; and finally came Paris on April 14, 1,420 miles from Athens, via Marseilles. The FrenchDate following gives the approximate statistics of World Tour :— Stages Oct.10 ('27) Paris-St. Louis „ 1415 „ 17„ 19 ;, 20Nov. 12 ,, 22 ,, 25Dec. 3 ;, 13„ 14 ,. 21„ 29 .. St. Louis-Natal Jan.11 ('28 „ 13„ 14 „ 17,. 21 » 24„ 36 „ 29 Feb. 46 „ 8 „ 11Mar. 2 4 „ 56 7 Apr. 8-9,, 10 ,, 11„ 12 „ 12-13 „ 13.. 14 Natal-CaravellasCaravellas-Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro-PelotasPelotas-Buenos Aires Buenos Aires-MontevideoMontevideo—Buenos Aires f Buenos Aires-Asuncion\_ Asuncion-Buenos Aires Buenos Aires-Florianopolis ..Florianopolis-Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro-Buenos AiresBuenos Aires-Santiago Santiago—La PazLa Paz-Lima . . ) Lima-Guayaquil (Ec.) Guayaquil-Panama Cit, Panama City-Cofon . . Colon-Caracas (Ven.) ., Caracas-Baranquilla . . Baranquilla-Colon y . Colon—Guatemala City. Guatemala City-Mexico City . Mexico City-New OrleansNew Orleans-Montgomery . Montgomery—Washington . Washington-New York. New York-Sharon . Sharon-Detroit. Detroit-Chicago . Chicago-Rock Springs. Rock Springs-San Francisco .. . Tokio—Hanoi. Hanoi-Calcutta . Calcutta-Karachi. Karachi-Basra . . . Basra-Aleppo .. . Aleppo-Athens. Athens-Paris .. Mileages . 2,658. 2.125 900 466 900 453 . 186143 745 . 745870 497 . 1,367807 . 1,305745 816 807 40 . 1,050600 403 900700 . 1,100. 300 750 225350 180 250 . 1,149776 . 2,620. 1,400 . 1,405. 1.330 . 1.480 . 840. 1,420 Time* tt Hrs. Mins26 19 8 4 12 42 15 6 9 5 118 12 7 8 7 — 9 5 4 ft(i 10 7 23 2 — 11 7 21 13— — — 9 14 3fi 5ii 45 19 0 eu 10 41' 7 30 0 5935 0 30 0 0 — 0 0 26 300 0 (I IS 18 — 30 46 17 30— — — it 15 264
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