Centennial of Flight Commission reported that the flight took 19 hours, 35 minutes. Sources very from as few as 17 hours to as many as 21 hours, 24 minutes. The actual duration of the flight is difficult to determine. The airplane was equipped with radios that could be used to triangulate their position using nine land stations and several ships along their course.Ī contemporary United Press wire service news report stated that they arrived at Natal at 6:15 a.m., local time. Mermoz, Dabry, Gimié, left for Natal at 10:56 a.m., local.”) Gimié was an expert in radio-navigation. Mermoz, Dabry, Gimié, partis pour Natal à 10 h. Gimié transmitted a radio message: “19º Frame-A.J.N.Q. Natal was approximately 2,000 miles away. The aviators flew southwest across the South Atlantic Ocean. The crew had named the airplane Comte de la Vaulx, after an early French aeronaut and the founder of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. Their airplane, a pontoon-equipped Latécoère 28-3, was carrying 122 kilograms (269 pounds) of mail and fuel for 30 hours of flight. Latécoère 28-3 F-AJNQ at Saint-Louis du Sénégal, May 1930, with Gimié, Mermoz and Dabry (Keystone)ġ2–: In an effort to connect the North African and South American air mail routes, Jean Mermoz, the chief pilot of Compagnie générale aéropostale, along with co-pilot and navigator Jean Dabry, and radio navigator Léopold Martial Émile Gimié, departed Saint-Louis, on the western coast of Senegal, French West Africa, enroute to Natal, Brazil.
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