PILOTLESS RETURN FLIGHT ACROSS ATLANTIC
Received Tuesday, 11 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 7. Using its automatic pilot, the United States Skymaster left Lyneham airfiehl at (5.4 a.m. G.M.T. today to repeat its pilotless transatlantic journey ot September 22. AVith good weather , prcspects, the Slcymastef left with 3500 gallons of fuel, 11 passengers and six of a cfew and a Iioyal Air Force observer, Wing Commander F. R. Jeffs. The aircraft was airborne after a 1400 yards run. It then climbed swiftJv and at a predetermined altituder it veered southwest as the mechanism picked up a radio beam from Lyneham and began its 15-hour 2400 miles journey on a predetermined course to Stephenville, Newfoundland. The Skymaster 's mechanism was set to pick up a radio frequency from a land station when 100 miles from Stephenville and foilow it in to the airfield. It was planned that the aircraft will not use radio beams from ships on the way.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 October 1947, Page 5
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