The Archive · 1935

M. DORER STUDYING BIG FLIGHT

Non-Stop Trip from Tokyo to Paris Envisaged Tokyo, Oct. 11.

Possibilities of a non-stop aeroplane fight from Tokyo to Paris are being studied by M. Marcel Doret, the French aviator, who is now in Tokyo, Doret has not announced that he contemplates such a flight, but re-Hable Information indicates that he here for the purpose of inquiring {into conditions and arrangements, the flight takes place, it wall be be some time before winter, If a /Tokyo-Paris non-stop journey proves impracticable, however, it is under~ stood that M. Doret may fy to the French capital with a single styp, at Moscow.

The French aviator Is a ce-naider lof the international aeroplane. spet record for 1,000 and 2,000 kilometres with a pay load of 2,000 kilogrammes. Over the 1,000: kilometre distance Int. Doret, with Captain Terrasson and Lieut. Lecarme, flew 259,555 kllometres an hour (161.280 miley an hour) at' Villacoublay, France, on September 7, 1983. Over the 2000 Kilometre course, the same crew on the same day flew 255253 kilometres fan hour (188.608 miles an hour)—

United Press,

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