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Five aviators prep for 1933 trans Atlantic and world flights
Cedar Rapids Gazette reports five aviation pioneers tune up at Mayd Bennett field Brooklyn for early takeoffs. The Adamwiscz brothers aim New York to Warsaw in the ship of the 1931 Berlin flight. Mattern plans a solo globe girdling flight via routes of Post and Gatty. Captain Darius and Girenas seek Lithuania as their objective.
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Mayd Bennett Field
Brooklyn
N. Y
Adamwiscz Brothers
New York
Warsaw
Poland
Hilly and
Harriss
Germany
Mattern
Oklahoma City
Post and Gatty
Lithuania
Darius
Girenas