Paris Preliminaries
(3 of 3) *The previous record was 45 hr., 11 min.. 59 sec., set in 1925 by
Lieuts. Drouhin and Landry of France. But Frenchmen, while admiring,
were little impressed with the new record. Not time aloft, said they,
but distance is what counts now. Their Flyers Challe and Weiser hold
that record, from Le Bourget, France, to Bander Ab bas, Persia — 3,208
miles at one hop. †Not to be confused with General Umberto Nobile,
engineer and helmsman of the Pole-crossing Italian dirigible, Norge.
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