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Title: World’s Record for Distance |
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Description: World’s Record for Distance in a Straight Line. More than 9,000 km. by Rossi and Codos - August 5-7, 1933 with Castrol Oil in a Hispano powered Bleriot airplane. (On telegram:) NEW YORK - BEIRUT WITHOUT STOPPING WORLD’S RECORD FOR DISTANCE IN A STRAIGHT LINE BEATEN USING CASTROL STOP THE LUBRICATION OF OUR MOTOR WAS PERFECTLY ASSURED AS ALWAYS WITH YOUR OIL=ROSSI CODOS. On August 7, 1933, two French pilots, Paul Codos and Maurice Rossi, captured the world distance record set only six months earlier by the British. The two Frenchmen left Bennett Field, New York in their Bleriot monoplane loaded down with 1,770 gallons of gasoline, making its total weight nine tons on takeoff. They flew north to Nova Scotia, across the Atlantic to Paris and Budapest, over the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas, and into Syria where, although they had originally planned to fly to the Persian Gulf, they decided to land because they were low on fuel. Rossi and Codos broke the previous record by 350 miles with their brilliant 5,657 mile non-stop flight from New York to Rayak, Syria. Codos, chief pilot for Air Union airlines, was already a distinguished pilot who had set 6 world’s records before this journey. |
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