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Dick Simon and I flew to Paris. On the Aquitania I had heard about fact that one now could fly from London to Paris, and I proposed to Dick that we experiment. This was against his conservative nature, and anyway it was very expensive, but I conned him into it.

Was this your first flight?

It was pretty nearly a first for anybody. This was the first passenger route there was in the world, London to Paris. That was 1925. There was no such thing in America. Only the mail planes were beginning to fly in America.

We landed at the famous old French field which Lindbergh made famous just a year or two later--Le Bourget.