History
The "Justice for Hungary" was the plane, built from the generosity
of the Hungarians living in North America, that had flown over the
Atlantic See at 15-16th of July in 1936 breaking a new record, on
the board Gyorgy Endresz pilot and Sandor Magyar the navigator.
This event is still not popular, although it has great
significance. It was a big dream of flight initiated by Sandor
Magyar. It was got up by the American-Hungarian Transatlantic
Committee (The Hungarians living in the US) founded in Detroit.
They sold postcards one dollar each.
In the February of 1930 viscount Harold Sidney Harmsworth
Rothermere offered 10.000 USD to the first Hungarian pilot who
flies from New York to Budapest.
One year before the take-off 5.000 USD was collected in the US
and Canada and only 45 USD in Hungary. At this time a Hungarian
craftsman(Emil Szalay) living in the US offered 25.000 USD, almost
the whole of his liquid assets.
The selected aircraft, the two-seater Lockheed Sirius didn't
reach Budapest it had to ditch near to Bicske because of weather
conditions and mechanical problems. They flew 5770 km from Harbour
Grace to Bicske in 25 hours and 20 minutes.
Gyorgy Endresz died in an air crash while he and his navigator
tried to land at the Littorio airfield near Rome.