The Archive · 1937

CONTEMPLATED

San Diego, July 15.

M. Sigismund Levanevsi the Soviet aviator who last year attempted a non-stop flight from Moscow to San Francisco, only to be forced back by a broken fuel line, will take off for the United States in a new flight next month, At a luncheon to-day in honour of M. Mikhail Gromov, Maj. Andre Yumashev and M. Sergei Danieline, the three aviators who flew non-stop from Moscow to San Jacinto, Cal, via the North Pole, it was announced by M. Stanley Shumovsky, aviation adviser to the U.S.S.R. that M. Levanevsky would fly a huge four-motored plane. The journey will not be a non-stop affair as one halt is planned at some point in Alaska, Shumovsky "announced.—Unjted ress,

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