£5500 FLIGHT.
PARIS TO NEW’ YORK. FREAK FRENCH! ’PLANE. LONDON, April 13. A French-American, Raymond Orteig, has offered £5500 as a prize for a flight by a Frenchman from Paris to New York. For this flight the aeroplane constructor Demonge has designed a freak monoplane, which will carry its crew, engines, and petrol supply in the wings, which will be 7ft truck amidships. Captain d’Oisy, who got as far as China in an attempted flight round the world, will probably pilot the machine.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 4 May 1925, Page 9
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83£5500 FLIGHT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 4 May 1925, Page 9
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