AVIATION
DITEMAN FLYING ALONE. (United Press Association.—By Electric • ;a Y Telegraph.—-Copyright.) - ...... NEW YORK, October 22. A Bt. Johns message states that the aviator Diteman, of Montana, U.S.A., who has left Grace Harbour, Newfoundland, • for London, is flying alone at a speed of one hundred and ten mileS an hour. He has sufficient petrol for twenty-five hours. The United States Weather Bureau 'forecast (is ft>r favourable weather until showers are met on the Irish coast. The machine is a “Barling n.b. s.”.' . ' : DESCENDANT OF SIR F. DRAKE. NEW YORK. October 23.Regarding the Atlantic flight, later reports indicate that W. F. Diteman’s plane, is a Barling low-winged monoplane*. named “The Golden Hind.’ The aviator claim's to be a descendant of Sir' Francis Drake, He left after a lengthy, but secret, preparation. The Barling Coy. builders of the plane, stated that it is not fitted for such a flight. The weather expert at Roosevelt Field stated the flight will be very dangerous.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1929, Page 6
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