ATLANTIC FLIGHT
AMERICAN STARTS
TO HALVE LINDBERGH’S TIME
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
NEW YORK, Maya 12,
A message from Newark -s ew) (Jersey, states-./that Lou Reichers, a young New Jersey speed pilot, departed 'at 11.5 p.in. on Thursday night on a two. halt flight 'to Paris, where he hopes, to land within seventeen hours. He is refeulling at Harbor Grace, in Newfoundland, and at Baldoiinel Field, in Dublin.
lie is flying the low-winged monoplane “Liberty,” which has a cruising range of two hundred m;ies • an hour.
Reichers hopes by maintaining nearly top speed, and by . making his fuel ■halts brief, that it”will be poSsib’e to halve Lindbergh's record time.
Reichers is carrying fifty pounds of merchandise to prove the practicability of a “pony express” trans-Atlan-.tiq, service, and also a number of letters, including One- from Airs Hargreaves to her eighteen-year-old granddaughter in England. f
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1932, Page 5
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