Outstanding

In Paris last week the Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs named as recipient of the Harmon Trophy that super-careful, monosyllabic antithesis of a grandstand flyer. Captain Edwin C. Musick, 42, No. 1 pilot of Pan American Airways. The award includes the title of ''World's Outstanding Aviator" for 1935. Famed among flyers as perhaps the ablest flying-boat pilot on earth, but practically unknown to the U. S. public until Pan American began its methodical march across the Pacific (TIME, Dec. 2), Captain Musick has never been known to stunt a commercial plane, has had no accidents in more than two decades of flying.

As the year's best British aviator, the League's members in 22 countries voted for Henry F. Broadbent, who flew from England to Australia in 6 days, 21 hr. 19 min., lowering the record set by the late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, whose round-Australia time he also bettered.

France's best was Andre Japy, who in a 100-h. p. monoplane made round-trip flights from Paris to Oslo, Tunis and Oran, Algeria, a four-stop flight from France to French Indo-China. The awards for Italy were divided among Mario Stoppani and two others. Stoppani set a seaplane distance record of 3,103 miles between Trieste and Berbera in British Somaliland.

Considerably more colorful than the other winners was the dark and handsome youth of 21 who performed the most noteworthy feat for Spain. Juan Ignacio Pombo had been in love with Senorita Maria Elena Rivero Corral since they were children. When her father, a newspaper publisher, moved to Mexico City and took Maria along, Juan was not daunted. He had learned to fly at 16, and his own father had been Spain's first civilian pilot. He would fly 7,000 miles to his sweetheart's side. Juan collected some money in his home town of Santander, bought a monoplane, and one calm night new to Natal, Brazil while the Spanish Cortes uttered sympathetic cheers. Meanwhile Maria almost spoiled matters by denying that they were engaged. But after writing some signed pieces for Universal Service about what a fine boy Juan was, she changed her mind (see cut).

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