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Show Airplane In Air Over Fifty-One Hours ' New York Two American aviators I who wouldn't "give up the stick" until It was dead and the gas tank dry rode down every world's record for continu-oua continu-oua flying when they passed, as partway part-way mile posts, first the thirty-six hour American record, then the forty-five- j hour French duration record, and finally final-ly their own scheduled fifty-hour stunt la the air. The record-breaking fliers were Civilian Aviator Bert Acosta, who abandoned automobile racing for even more daring feats, and Clarence Duncan Chamberlain. They used a light, trim, silver and lemon colored monoplane built by Giuseppe M. Bel- i lanca. |