Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-07
FLYERS LAND
IN SYRIA FOR
NEW RECORD.
French Pair Who Left New
York On Saturday Exceed
Old Mark By 800 Miles.
OCEAN CROSSING STORMY
Aviators Greeted By Wives At
Paris Airport On Way To
Eastern Points.

RAYACK, Syria, Aug. 7. U.p)-
Paul Codes and Maurice Rossi.
French air pioneers, brought their
big monoplane down on the dusty
airfield here at twilight tonight,
credited with new world record
for straight-line distance flying.
Fifty-five hours and 30 minutes
out of New YORK, they had ira
versed the Atlantic, the breadth
of Europe and part of Asia Minor
for an unofficial distance of about
$500 miles which would break by
more than 300 miles the previous
record.
Several hundred natives in burn
ouses, and army aviators cheered
the flyers on their arrival. They
were so worn by their exhausting
trip they had to be helped from the
plane.
French army planes from Syrian
posts picked the flyers up at the
coast and escorted them to the
airfield. They had veered sharply
south after leaving the southern
coast of Turkey and did not fly
over Aleppo, as they had at first
intended.
Their plane functioned perfectly
except for leakage of gasoline as
they passed over the coast of Asia
Minor.
They were expected to rest here
several days before returning to
France.
PARIS, Aug. 7. {U.PHPaul Codes
and Maurice Rossi, smashing the
world distance record for Straight
line flying, landed at ITO p. m.
EDIT today at Rayack, Syria. the
air ministry announced.
Their straight line distance was
unofficially estimated at approx
imately $500 miles from New York
to Rayack, compared to the pre-
vious record or 5,340 miles from
England to South Africa, set by
Squadron Commander c. B. Gay
lord and Flight Lieut.. G. E. Nicho-
let's, of Great Britain.
The ministry announced Official
ly the record was broken.
It was expected the International
Air Federation would take about
two days to compute and confirm
the official distance.
PARIS, Aug. Z. U.PEPaul Codes
and Maurice Rossi were believed
flying through Southwestern Asia
today, with only the question of a
safe landing between them and the
world record for long distance
straight line flight.
The flyers radioed at $50 a. m.
French daylight time (4:30 a. m.
EDIT that they had passed over
Island of Rhodes, off Smyrna at
the southern end of the Aegean
sea.
They were then 49O miles from
Aleppo, on the mainland, and ac-
cording to experts of the Inter-
national Aeronatic Federation they
will have broken the record by the
necessary 100 kilometers when they
reach there.
AT Aleppo they will have gone
1864 kilometers (5,402.5 niles. or
100 kilometers more than the rcord
Of 8,544 kilometers (5:34O offic-
tally credited to Squadron Com
mander C. B. Guylord and Flight
Lieutenant c. E. Nicholetts of the
British royal air force for their
flight from Lympke, England to
Walfish Bay, South Africa
They had flown from New York
to Paris in weather so bad that
for much of the time they could
not tell their position, and on
through France, Germany, Austria,
Hungary and Jugslavia. They pas
sed over the Aegean between the
Greek Provinces of Thrace and
Macedonia, and spanned the AEGEAN
toward the Asian coast and their
goal-Bagdad, Irak, or Karachi,
India, according to how their fuel
supply held out.
To consolidate their record, it
was necessary for the flyers to
make safe landing. An accident
would mean, under International
Federation rules, that their flight
could not be credited as record
one.