NON-STOP AIR RECORD
ANXIETY FOR FRENCHMEN I Australian Press Assn. J PARI7, Sept. 29. There is anxiety for Captains Costes and Bellcconte. It is certain that their petrol would be exhausted early today. It is surmised that they came down in Siberia with no moans of communication. They were sighted only once in Germany. Two Frenchmen, Captain Costes and Captain Bellcconte. loft Lo Bourget on Saturday in an attempt to boat the world’s nonstop air record, their objective being Harbin. They wore using a modified Proquct machine equipped with a 600 h.~p. Hispano Suiza engine.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 234, 2 October 1929, Page 13
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