Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-21
French Ace to
Take Off at
LIE Bourget.
WANTS TO MAKE
WORLD CIRCUIT,
Chooses Route Via
Hawaii to Get
More Fuel.

Dieudonne Coste, French air ace,
announced from lie Bourget Field;
Paris, this afternoon he would
take off at 5 am. tomorrow in a
fight around the world in pursuit.
of the German dirigible Graf Yep
pelin, which he hoped to overtake
and pass before she could reach;
Lakehurst and New York, accoroM
ing to Associated Press. -
The French aviator, who has al
ready made a flight around the
world since he crossed the South
Atlantic Ocean in 1927, told an
intimate friend today that he
would attempt to break the
worlds nonstop distance record
for airplanes on the first stage of
his race around the world with
the Zeppelin, which is at present
at Toxic.
Coste, flying in the machine
with which he recently attempted
to cross the Atlantic from east to
west, will attempt to make the
distance from LIE Bourget to Vlad-
ivostok, Siberia, in a single flight
tomorrow.
He says he intends to refuel at Vladi-
vostok and then Immediately fly to
Toxic. which he expects to reach by
pm. Saturday.
VIII Use Pontoons.
The famous pilot added that arrange
ments had been made at Kasumigaura
flying field, from which the Graf Zep-
pelin was to start, to adapt pontoons
for his airplane for the flight across
the Pacific to the American coast
He intended to leave Japan by am.
Sunday morning, stopping only eight
hours for sleep, supplies and installa-
ton Of the pontoons.
In the meantime, DR.. Hugo Eckener,
commander, had left Toxic for Kasu-
migaura, the naval air station 40 miles
away. preparatory to the take-of of
the Graf Zeppelin for Seattle and Los
Angeles. The take-off was set for 2
pm. today. Eastern standard time.
Going Via Hawaii.
Unless he meets with some accident
Coste expects to stop at the Hawaiian
Islands. He thinks he should reach
Honolulu by 9 am. Tuesday, August 81.
Then he will continue in a single
jump to San Francisco or Los Angeles.
He hoped to arrive at Los Angeles be-
fore the Graf Zeppelin could refuel and
get away for Lakehurst. The Graf Is
due in California on Sunday, if all
goes well and she maintains the speed
over the Pacific which she averaged
across Europe and Asia. It will take
three days to refuel her and inspect
her engines.
Coste expected to catch up with the
Graf some time after leaving Hawaii.
by Tuesday I should begin to see
the huge tail of the Graf Zeppelin" he
told his friends today.
The flight from San Francisco or
Los Angeles to New York Ccste ex-
pected to be easy and to give him
big advantage over the dirigible.
Second Flight.
tion," he explained.
The last stage of his flight will be
from New York to LIE Bourget or from
Old Orchard, Me, from which his fell
low countrymen, ASSolant, Lotti and
Lefevre, took off in their airplane, yell
low Bird.
Coste has not yet chosen which
course he Will take, put ne Is lncIlneo
to favor that from New York to Paris.
He said this would permit him, If all
went we'll, to duplicate Lindbergh's ia
nous flight in May, 1927. Although
the Atlantic has been crossed several
times from west to east since then, no
one has achieved the exploit of the fa-
nous American aviator in landing
exactly at the point for which he set
out on flight from the United States
to the continet of Europe.
Coste will make his flight around the
world in any case. he said. but he Is
especially anxious to overtake the Graf
Zeppelin because DR.. Hugo Eckener
broke Coste's record for the Paris-Tokio
distance by nearly two days.
The Zeppelin did not cover the entire
distance between Paris and Toxic. but
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