EXTENSIVE TOUR
COL. AND MRS. LINDBERGH
NEW YOEK, 21st November. Following a preliminary flight to the Pacific Coast and back, Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh will soon leave on. a. 22,000-mile air tour down the Atlantic Coast to South America, around Cape Horn, returning up the Pacific Coasts of South and North America for inspection of the Pan-American airways lines. It is understood the preliminary trip will be for the purpose of the installation of a new wing on the 'plane which -,'-he Lindberghs used on their record fi'.ight in April. A new 600 horse-power Wright motor hsis also been installed.
'In April last Colonel Lindbergh, with kik wife, set a new trans-Continental spa eel record when, they landed at Lockheed d in. a Sirius 'plane in 14.hours 44 minV->tes after leaving Glendale, California, at 8.26 in the morning, New Yorlr time. ,• Colon*! Lindbergh made one a top of twenty minutes to Refuel at WichUta, Kansas. The entire flight was made at altitudes of 11,000 and 20,000 feet. Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh made the flight to prove that transContJrtl ental air express 'planes .may fly more (swiftly; with less storm resistance at higil! altitudes.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 125, 24 November 1930, Page 9
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193EXTENSIVE TOUR Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 125, 24 November 1930, Page 9
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