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Flyers’ Non-stop Attempt to Cross Atlantic. ENGINE TROUBLE. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received February 18, 11.30 am.) LONDON, February 17. Paul Codos and Maurice Rossi, famous French flyers, who left Marseilles yesterday on a non-stop flight to Rio de Janeiro, landed at the Cape Verde
Islands, owing to falling oil pressure, when midway between the Capp Verde Islands and the island of St Paul They were flying the veteran Bleriot monoplane (550 h.p. Hispano-Suiza engine) in which they established the long-distance record from New York to Rayak, in Syria, in August, 1933.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20542, 18 February 1935, Page 1
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