FRESH RECORD

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1933, Page 11

FRESH RECORD

MOLLISON'S FLIGHT

WEATHER OVER ATLANTIC

TEIBTJTE TO MACHINE

(British Official Wireless.) (Eeceived 11th February, 11 a.m.);

EUGBY, 10th PebruaiyJ

By flying 4410 miles from Lympne^ England, to Port Natal, Brazil, xn. les} \ than thiee and a half days, Mri J. A* Mollison has established a fresh record! | for the Europe-South America flight.- Hej is the first man to fly alone from east; to west across the South Atlantic. la! [his small Puss Moth,.cabin aeroplane,! "with. 130^ i-orse-power Gigsy Major■ -eiiri giae he accomplished the .2000 milea \ ocean fligkt from West Africa to Bra-, zil ia «17 Hours 5 minutes. IPoi 7DOi miles of tte journey lie experienced; : very iad tveather with heavy thunderi storms and, irlien le approached thai coast of Brazil,, having by "brillianti ■ navigation come "within a few miles o^ Port Natal, rain was falling heavily." .. Nevertheless; Mollison described ths jonrney as nnexciting- and- states thati his machine and engine behaved perfectly throughout. He is expected ta] fly to Eio de Janeiro to-day and mak«jthe Te'tnrn flight to' England "by the samel ' route. • ' • - ■ • .

MoHison's machine -was the same use^ "by.him when he made the first solo east-i to-west' flight across the North Atlantic last A-ngust. In the previous year hej established the Atistralia-to-Englana :re-i cora, .flying 10,000 miles in under 9 Says, His record £ngland-to-the-Cape flightj of. fonr days 17 honrSj established lastj March, was lowered last November W 11 lours by his wife Amy Johnson.: ". .'• Mollison is a Scotsman, aged 27,