Off, I have never heard of any reference to Venus flight after a lifetime in LA. I may have missed it but ...
Googling only yields one reference: this thread.
Well, somehow I couldn’t find it after half an hour of searching last night, but after getting your post I found it on the first google search. Now I see that Nick Danger already found it — Court Flight.
Here’s a link to another site
http://onbunkerhill.org/node/130