Show AVIATION Details of ot Charles A. A Lindbergh's h epochal flight alone from New r-ew form to Paris are still fresh Cesh In nil all minds min s Testing his plane piano h by O flying ing train from CHI Cil alifornia Jo to Long Island in two hops hop the qui quiet t young man took off Iff for far France on Ma May 20 and 3 33 hours find anti am 21 minutes later he landed safely HIthe at HI atthe atthe the Le Ie Bourget field The 1 French people went wild er over him hint nn and In France Belgium and England hOJ honors honor ot- ot were heaped upon him lie He Ic Kept hi head wonderfully and und his modesty and devotion to his business s. s both hOlh in Eu Ell Europe Europe rope and after his triumphant return home endeared him to all ull Il American U even more than his great greut achievement Rejecting all offers otters that hut would have e made him wealthy I he took 11 II position In the Gug Guggenheim enheim Foundation for the advancement ud of aviation lation and In hl his famous plane the Spirit of or St ht t Louis mn made e a tour of ot all the states In December Lindbergh was d to Mexico City by hy President C lilies dules lles and responded ed by hy making the first nonstop flight train from io Washington to the Mexican capital where he ens s received received re most enthusiastically i lIy as ns lie he unofficial ambassador of good will In February De PInedo of Italy flew uCro across s the south ll t Atlantic to i Brazil 1 later luter O flying ins up to the United Unitt d States State and Canada and thence to the Azores and home The rue arm arrays army's s pan American air squadron lost lust two of Its members In a n collision at It Buenos Aires the rest of them returned to tn Washington i in n May C. C D Chamberlin mind and C. C A Levine Uvine flew from train Long iong Island to Germany Ger runny many In June establishing a it nonstop I distance record of ot 3 O miles Tip The same sonic month J J. J L L. L Maitland oral and Albert Hegenberger of the army flew Jew from San Francisco to Honolulu ami Commander B Byrd Td and his crew hopped off oft at New York for Cor Europe landing in the time sea near Havre France E EI 1 i Smith and E. E B B. B Bronte made the flight from Crom San Francisco to Hawaii In July landing on Molokai Island nd out ont of gas 1 Many planes were entered In a race from California to Honolulu In August August Au Au- b gust St and four started but only two made the trip successfully One of ot these was manned by Art Goebel and William Davis ls and the other by Martin Jensen and Paul Schlutter The Time other two starters carrying four men and one woman were lost and Capt W. W P. P Erwin and A. A A IL II wal t who ho flew In search of them theme also perished In the ocean Before DeCore the start of the race three entrants were killed In accidents Yet another bold aviator who disappeared ed was Paul Redfern who undertook to fly from train Brunswick Ga to Rio d de deJaneiro deJaneiro Janeiro Brazil Then In September Pilots Bertaud and Hill flits with P. P Playne Payne layne ne a 0 New l York newspaper manas manns man manas as ns passenger undertook the transatlantic transatlantic transmit transmit- lantic flight night heading for or Rome the they fell into the sen sea an and perished In October Oc Oc- toh toper tober r Ruth Elder and Geor George e Haldeman Haldeman Halde- Halde Haldeman man tried to duplicate Lindbergh's berghs bergh's feat flat but were forced down near the time Azores and picked up b. b by a 3 steamer Pilots und arid amid Brock started from New ew August 27 7 for a O flying in tour tutu of the world They landed in England the next day and continued their trip trill successfully as far as Tokyo Japan By that lint time the conditions conditions con con- dW ns over o the time Pacific were such that they wl wisely eI ma made e the crossing b by I steamship Pilots Tully fully and ancl of ot Canada lost their lives In tr trying I Ito to II fly from Harbor Grace N N. N F F. to I London in September European aviators were almost as os active as those of America and some of them also paid the extreme penalty for their boldness Captains Charles Nungesser and I Francois Coli Coll famous French ench aces undertook a nonstop flight from Paris to New York In May and aud were Tere lost off oft New In August Capt Leslie Hamilton and Col t. t F F. F I F. F MInchIn with Princess Lowen Lowen- steIn Wertheim as passenger started from Upavon England for Ottawa Ont and were never seen en again |