Cover 2,546 Miles in Non-Stop Flight of 40 Hours, Still Up.
By the Associated Press.
CHARTRES, France, August 9.—The French aviators, Drouhin and Landry landed at the airdrome here at 2:42 o’clock this morning, after having covered 4,400 kilometers in 45 hours 11 minutes 59 seconds, creating a new world non-stop record both for duration and distance.
By the Associated Press.
ETAMPES, France, August B.—The French aviators Drouhin and Landry, at 10 o’clock tonight, became holders of the world’s record for a non-stop airplane flight, having covered a distance of 4,100 kilometers (2,546.1 miles).
The aviators were still In the air at 10 o’clock, and had fuel to keep them going seven hours longer.
The roads in the vicinity of Etampes and Chartres and the hillsides were crowded with automobiles and pedestrians. Among the onlookers were many Americans who decided to pass a part of the night following the trail of the speeding plane.
The two fliers, who set out at 5:30 o’clock yesterday morning to break the world flight record for duration and distance are flying over a 62-mile course between Chartres and Etampes.
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Their distance record at 10 o’clock tonight surpassed the 2,485-mile flight made by Lieuts. Kelley and Macready in a United States Army plane at Dayton, Ohio, in 1923. At 10:30 o’clock tonight the aviators had been in the air 40 1/2 hours thus beating Dreuhin’s own duration test of 37 hours 59 minutes and 10 seconds, made last year.
At noon today both men were in excellent physical condition and were confident they could remain aloft for 50 hours.
M. Drouhln, one of the aviators, who has set up new distance and duration records, has figured prominently in French aviation competitions since 1922, when, with Lieut. Bossoutrot he stayed in the air over Le Bourget, 34 hours, 14 minutes and 32 seconds. Drouhin’s companion pilot, Landry, has not flown on previous record flights.
With M. Coupet, Drouhin set another record at Chartres, last year, in a flight which lasted 37 hours, 59 minutes and 10 seconds, this mark being made in the same Goliath biplane used by Bossoutrot and Drouhin, in 1922. Drouhin’s latest accomplishment before today’s feat was flying at a cost of a cent a mile, and thereby winning the Solex prize of 50,000 francs for the cheapest flight from Paris to Rouen, about 63 miles.
Evening Star, Washington, DC, August 9, 1925