TRANS-AMERICA AIR RACE
-ONLY AMI3MCANS LEFT IN.. . (Kec, October 10. .5.5 .p. 111,) . New York, October !'. Despite the' unfavourable weather in places (.lie aeroplanes en routo from. ■.NewYork"! o San Francisco are milking good : headway: It is : expected that Miovtly llie-lcjulers from • San I'rancisco Urand to-New York will meet, tho.se bound westward. -Already several'fatalities havo ooeourred. -Major ••Crissy and Sergeant .Tlwinas., were, killed ..by a fall at Salt take City. 'A British plane, driven Mjjr Air Commodore Charlton, fell at Ovid, New York. Commodore Charlton (scaped injury. A Prencli 'piano a]>.o fell in flames, but both occupants cscujwl. Only. Americans remain in the contest.—Aii6.N.Z; Cable Assn. s
A.;Ci)o4tlLl>-NON-STOl' JOUKNKY.'. October''lo,-'9.5' p.as.) New York, .October 9. The Handley-Page biplane commanded 'by Major Brackley, has arrived at Greenport, Long island, completing a six hundred mile non-stop-journey lrom Parrsborough, Nova Scotia.—Ausl-N.Z. Cabla Assn. PLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA. [} (l{ec. October 10,' 7.'20.,i).iii,).. : ■ ' London, October 9.' A.Larkin-Sopwith'plaiw .is- expected to start an . Australian, flight on October 15. Captain Matthews, navigator and pilot,; will be accompanied by Sergeant T. D. Kay, ail Australian Plying Corps mechanic— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asan. '
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 14, 11 October 1919, Page 7
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182TRANS-AMERICA AIR RACE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 14, 11 October 1919, Page 7
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