Flights of the Week

Costes to Le Brix. Joseph Le Brix, flying from Paris to Saigon, French Indo-China (TIME, March 4). crashed safely into the Gulf of Martaban, Burma, last week. In Paris was his onetime world-tour partner and present antagonist. Dieudonne Costes, who crashed a fortnight ago at the beginning of a similar pan-Eurasian flight. Crashed Flyer Costes sent Crashed Flyer Le Brix a carefully polite message of condolence.

Mexico City to Washington. Vainly again did a Mexican try to fly nonstop from Mexico City to Washington. 2,300 miles. Last year it was the late Emilio Carranza. Last week it was Joaquin Gonzalez Pacheco, with Clifford E. McMillin of Syracuse, N.Y., in a plane named for Carranza. Like Carranza, Pacheco reached Washington, but not until after forced landings.

The chief handicap is Mexico City's altitude, a mile above sea level, where the thin atmosphere makes it difficult for a plane to rise with enough gasoline for the distance. In 1927, Col. Lindbergh flew in the reverse direction, from Washington to Mexico City, arriving with light tanks.

Arctic Relief. With food for relief of the ship Elisif, icelocked at North Cape, Siberia, flew Noel Wien from Nome, Alaska, last week. When helped prepare the Wilkins Arctic flights two and three years ago.

Lindbergh, Again. Col. Lindbergh, who gallivanted down to Mexico City to visit his fiancee, last week, flew to Brownsville, Tex., with air mail and back to Mexico City, the first round trip over the new air mail route.

Publisher Van Leer Black of the Baltimore Sunpapers, jaunting in Africa, reached Capetown last week and turned back for England.