ATLANTIC FLY
IN A MOTH PLANE.
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(Received this day at 9.25. a.m.) ST: JOHNS, Newfoundland, October 17. Commander H. C. • MacDonald, an English aviator, hopped off from Harbour Grace, to-day in a Moth plane for England.
McDonald’s take-off
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(Received this day at 11 a.m.) ST. JOHNS, October 17. The weather was perieet for the take-off at 10.20 p.m. McDonald stated the flight would be a five hour test, but he had a full load of fuel and equipment.
A FOOLHARDY EFFORT
ST. JOHN’S, Oct. 17
MacDonald is aged 28. He had 80 hours’ previous experience in flying the Gipsy Moth plane, which has a wing spread of 26, feet and fuel for 35 hours. The engine is eighty to one hundred horsepower. The machine has no floats and no wireless.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1928, Page 5
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140ATLANTIC FLY Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1928, Page 5
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