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'''Tydeo Larre Borges''' ([[Paysandú]], 25 September 1893-[[Montevideo]], 1 September 1984) was a Uruguayan [[army officer]] and [[aviator]], pioneer in the South American and international aviation. He was the first South American to cross the [[South Atlantic Ocean]], flying with no scales with the French pilot [[Léon Challe]] on December 15, 1929 from [[Sevilla]], [[Spain]] and arriving on  December 17, 1929 near [[Maracajaú]], [[Brazil]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fau.mil.uy/larreborges.html|title= Brigadier General (Aviador) Tydeo Larre Borges|year=2007|accessdate=4 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.air-journal.fr/2011-12-17-le-17-decembre-1929-dans-le-ciel-traversee-de-l%E2%80%99atlantique-sud-de-challe-et-larre-borges-540117.html|title=Le 17 décembre 1929 dans le ciel: traversée de l'Atlantique Sud de Challe et Larre Borges|date=17 December 2011|magazine=Air Journal}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://chezpeps.free.fr/bruno-challe/@/cursus-leon/doc-6-traversee-atlantique-challe.htm#3|title=La traversée de l'Atlantique Sud par Léon Challe|year=2007|accessdate=4 February 2017}}</ref>

'''Previous Flight'''
In 1927 he had made a previous attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a Domier Do J seaplane with two Farman engines of 550 H.P. But due to mechanical defects the seaplane baptized “Uruguay” had to land on the Atlantic coast of Africa, in southern Morocco, 150&nbsp;km from [[Cape Juby]]. The crew integrated by Captain José Luis Ibarra, Captain Glauco Larre Borges, and mechanic Alferez José Rigoli swam to the coast. There they were made prisoners by members of a local tribe. A week afterwards they were rescued, in an episode of novelistic characteristics, by the pilots of the Latécoère company Marcel Reine and Antoine Léon. The French pilots were commissioned to rescue them by the Spanish government.

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[[Category:1893 births]]
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[[Category:Uruguayan aviators]]
[[Category:Uruguayan Air Force personnel]]


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