Word: lisbon
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...beginning, it was apparently a straight business proposition. McGuire, who began flying for the Army Air Forces during World War II and had shipped supplies to isolated French units during the Indochina War, was working for a small European airline. He stopped over at Lisbon in May, and saw some Lockheed Constellations parked in a guarded portion of the airport there. "I knew what they were," he laughs, "In our business word gets around." Word had also reached him of the $1500 per trip salary for pilots ($1000 for flight engineers) and after a few inquiries, he joined the Biafran...
...crossing was not made, as you said it was, by two Britons in a Vickers Vimy bomber [July 12]. It was made by six Americans in a Navy NC4 flying boat under Lieut. Commander Albert Gushing Read, U.S.N. This "forgotten" first crossing was made in May, 1919 (Newfoundland-Azores-Lisbon), a month earlier than that by Alcock and Brown in their bomber (Newfoundland-Ireland). The Britons collected the ?10,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail for a nonstop flight-still offering prizes, I see-while the pioneering Americans languished in comparative obscurity. I had occasion to research this...
Ironically, after skillfully eluding capture for so many weeks, Ray can be said to have botched his last getaway. He apparently left Lisbon in a hurry because he sensed that the police were on his trail. But under a 60-year-old treaty with the U.S., Portugal-which abolished the death penalty in 1867-will not extradite any criminal sought on a capital charge. Senhor Ray could have stayed there indefinitely...
Among the 96 passengers debarking at Heathrow Airport from BEA's Lisbon-London Flight 75 was Ramon George Sneyd, who went to the Commonwealth immigration desk and presented his Canadian passport. The immigration official took one look at the document, then asked the bespectacled Sneyd to join him in a back room for some "routine" questions. The interrogation was far from routine. Sneyd was found to be packing a loaded pistol in his back pocket, plus another Canadian passport. And when Scotland Yard's crack detective Tommy Butler took over, the alert immigration official's original suspicions...
Pistol & Cards. While all this was going on, Ray was in Lisbon calculating his next move. He apparently attempted to alter his fraudulent passport, but only got as far as changing the d in Sneyd to a. At the Canadian embassy in Lisbon he told the consul: "My name has been misspelled," and was issued a new passport on May 16. Thus, with the two cards and pistol in pocket, he flew off to London and incarceration at Cannon Row police station, a stone's throw from...