Aeronautics: Flights of the Week, Aug. 10, 1931

With admiration but not astonishment the world watched the following flights last week:

New York-Istanbul Big-framed Russell N. Boardman, onetime cowboy, motorcyclist and wingwalker, and small John L. Polando, onetime garage mechanic, pulled the Bellanca monoplane Cape Cod up from Floyd Bennett Field, New York, and struck the well-travelled Great Circle Course to Europe. For two nights and a day the plane was unsighted from land or sea, even when it dropped a copy of the New York Times upon Le Bourget Field. It landed at Istanbul's Yeshilkeuy Airdrome, 5,011 mi. and 49...

Want the full story?

Subscribe Now

Subscribe
Subscribe

Learn more about the benefits of being a TIME subscriber

If you are already a subscriber sign up — registration is free!