AERONAUTICS: A DASHING FIGURE

While the American and British expeditions were held up, a French world flier, Lieutenant Pelletier D'Oisy, carried on. He went farther in ten days than did Britisher Mac- Laren, covering 5,468 miles in 45 hours and 20 minutes of actual flying time. D'Oisy decided a month ago to make his mad rush for Tokyo to beat MacLaren he made no special preparations, took an ordinary French Army Breguet plane with a 400 horsepower Lorraine engine, filled up with gas and was off. He is familiarly known as " Pivolo" in the French air service,...

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