New Britain herald., 1929-08-21
COSTE WILL RACE
 ZEPPELIN AROUND
 WORLD ID EUROPE
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V plane for the flight across the Paci- fife to the American coast.
 He intended to leave Japan by 3
 a. rl. Sunday morning, stopping only eight hours for sleep, supplies and installation of the pontoons. To stop at Hawaii Unless he meets with some lcci- dent Coste expects to stop at the i Hawaiian Islands. He thinks he should reach Honolulu by a. m. ! Tuesday, August -.
 Then he will continue in d single jump 10 San Francisco or Los An geles. He hoped to arrive at Los .-n- geles before the Graf Zeppelin could refuel and get away for Lakehurst The Graf is due there on Sunday, if all goes well and she maintains the speed over the Pacific which she averaged across Europe and Asta. It will take three days to rctuel her and inspect her engines.
 Coste expected to catch up with the Graf some time after leaving Hawaii.
 By Tuesday l should begin 10 se, the huge tail of tho Graf Zeppelin, ' he told his friend today.
 Experts to Pas, Graf
 The flight from San Francisco CT Los Angeles to New I orN, rostc cX- rccred to be easy and 10 give him Ia big advantage over the dirigble.
 q did it before in the other di- rection," he explained.
 The last stage Of his flight will he
 rom New York to Lo Eourgct or from old Orchard Maine. from which his fellow countrymcn .sso- lant, Lotti and f.cfervre took off in their airpane Yellow Bird.
 Coste has not yet chosen which course he will take, but he is inclin- ed to favor that from New York 10 Paris.
 He said this would permit him. if all went well. to duplicate Lind herGhs famous flight in May, 1927. Although the Atlantic has pncu crossed several times from west to east since then no one has achieved the exploit of the famous American aviator in landing exactly at th,7 point for which he set out on a flight from the United States to the continent of Europe.
 After Graf Record
 Coste will make his flight around the world in any case, he said, but he is especially anxious to ovcrtake the Graf Zeppelin because pr. Hugo Eckcner broke Costc's record
 for the Paris-Tokyo distance by nearly two days.
 The Zeppelin did not cover the entire distance between Paris and
 Tokyo, but made the flight from FriedriChshafen in at least a day less than the siX-day achievement of the French pilot. In any case. Coste considers his record broken and wants to get it back again with
 the added thrill of a race against 1 a dirigible. All French airmen
 maintain the inherent superiority. ol heavier than air craft 10 dirigiblns and Ccste's race with the Graf will be followed with the koenest inter est by aviation circles in France. Maurice Bellontc, who accom- panied COste on his attempt to fly from Te BOurgct to New York on
 July 13, will again be his compan- ion as wireless operator and navi- i gator on the flight around tho world
 To tsc "Qucs:ion Mark" The French airmen will fly the celebrated Brequet sasuuiplane "Question Mark" which they used in July. It has a single Hispano- Suiza motor. This airplane has a cruising speed of 12O miles an hour and q range at average speed of about 50 hours
 Coste after crossing the south
 Atlantic, few all the way around the world with his comrade. Lieut.. Joseph Le Erik, except for the
 stretch across the Pacific ocean.
 He will take a different rout-
 this time but will touch at Tokyo
 whore he had shipped his airplane 1 from the Pacific coast. He will face flights across the Pacific ocean and
 across the north Atlantic ocean
 which are entirely new to him.