Outstanding among flying feats of recent months, which have in-eluded a solo flight around. the world, a formation flight of Italian seaplanes to Chicago, the Mollisons? rossing of the Atlantic, and a new World's' seaplane record, is the French long-distance Might. Using 4 Bleriot monoplane, Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos have completed a Ron-stop flight from New York to Rayack, near Damascus in French Syria, breaking the record recently established by Squadron-Leader Gayford and Flight-Lieutenant Nicholette. The exact distance covered has not yet been ascertain ed but it easily exceeds the British acord which was 5,340 milles from Cranwell to South Africa, and Possibly adds some hundred' miles to this figure. The airmen flew 5,911 miles but this includes some deviation and only the straight line distance counts in estimating. the record. This is a" magnificent achievement and illustrates forcibly the tremendous range of modern Aeroplanes which are able to span quarter of the world's circum: ference in one flight and. bring the censorship defeats its own objects. That has been the ex-Perience of the Soviet, and latterly. of Germany, while coming a little closer home, China's own endeavours along the same lines have not been any too fruitful,
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