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Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1933, Page 6

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NORTHERN ATLANTIC SURVEY THE LINDBERGHS IN DENMARK (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON S August 2G. The. Lindberghs have left the Shetland Islands for Copenhagen. Colonel Lindbergh’s survey of ,the Northern Atlantic is arousing. ..attention. It is understood his first reports are favourable for the establishment of a regular summer service between America and Europe,' via ; Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe and Shetland- Islands, and' thence to the neighbourhood of Copenhagen. Possibly,., later, there would be a winter service via the Azores and Bermuda. WELCOME TO LINDBERGHS COPENHAGEN, August 26. Colonel Lindbergh.Aia : d a; great reception here. He' experienced difliculty in landing owing to the ' number of motor-boats in the harbour. The pc lice cleared the way to the Town Hall, whei’e they had* a /erne welcome.

ULM’S MACHINE REPAIRED LONDON. August 25. : U!m’'s' macbi he '“Fkith iu-Atistralia, ’ * Iras been repaired and tests are proceeding. She flies to Port Marnock at' the week-end, preparatory to a train's-Atlantic flight. PLANE PERFECTION DEVfCE. (Received this day at 10.40 a.ni.) i LONDON, A’ugust'26.

A Gloucester firm has solved another major air problem', immensely increasing aeroplanes’ safety and. efficiency by perfecting a device, automatically, varying the propellors’ pitch,in-flight, eliminating vibriatidn "damage to'the plane, and enabling ,lan.du.Jgs r in smaller space.