A night
above the sea

On 10 June 1933, at twenty to five in the morning, a Breguet XIX took off from Tablada, in Sevilla, carrying five thousand litres of fuel and no radio. Joaquín Collar was at the controls; behind him, Mariano Barberán worked out their course on the chart, hour after hour, checking it against the sun and the stars. Almost forty hours later they landed at Camagüey, in Cuba. The aircraft bore the name of the Madrid airfield where it had all begun: Cuatro Vientos