Aeronautics: Flights of the Week, Aug. 31, 1931

Lindberghs. The legend of Lindbergh infallibility has withstood minor shocks but never a shock like the one it endured last week. After crossing the Bering Sea without mishap and effecting a comparatively happy landing at Petropavlovsk, near the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Lindbergh troubles began. They continued for four days while headlines describing the oriental odyssey in occidental newspapers grew wide with astonishment.

First a heavy fog. "white darkness," delayed the Lindberghs' take-off from Petropavlovsk for the dangerous 897-mile hop over the Kurile Islands to Nemuro (pop. 5,000) at the...

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