ATLANTIC FLIGHT
MOLLISON LEAVES. / A HEAVY LOAD FOR THE PLANE ) ''United Press Association—By Electrio i Telegraph—Copyright.) (Reoeived this day at 9.SJR a.m) LONDON, August 18. Mollison commenced his Atlantic flight from Portmarnock at 11.35 o’clock. Mollison’is machine rose perfectly after a run of a few hundred yards. Mollison said that he proposed to fly at half-throttle, thereby increasing the maximum range. He would still be in the air after having flown 4050 miles in thirty-eight hours. He carried petrol and oil equivalent to the weight of eight adults, the greatest weight ever imposed on a light aeroplane. He passed Galway seventy minutes after leaving, and was making 104 miles an hour, aided by a following wind of fifteen miles a,n hour. The weather and visibility are favourable.
METEOROLOGIST’S REPORT
NEW YORK, August 18
Doctor Kimball, the noted _ aviation, meteorologist, ‘said that/ who has left Ireland on his trans-At antic flight may run into local disturbances about mid-ocean. There is, however, no definite .storm area across the route.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1932, Page 5
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