ATLANTIC SERVICE
FIRST COMMERCIAL FLIGHT
NEW YORK TO AZORES
HORTA-(Azores), May 21
The Pan-American Airways flyingboat Yankee Clipper, which, took off from New York yesterday, landed here at 2.29 a.m. today, completing the first leg of the first scheduled commercial flight across the Atlantic. ~ ,
The trip started,on the twelfth anniversary of Colonel Lindbergh's flight to Paris. The plane carried only mail; and. there were np. passengers. : /..
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 9
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66ATLANTIC SERVICE Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 9
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