FIRST SOLO CROSSING
AIR MINISTER'S COMPLIMENT (Offieial Wireless). Rugby, August 19. Mr. Mollison is the first airman to fiy solo across the Atlantic in a westerly direction. If he succeeds in completing the double journey he will, in the opinion of most aviation authorities, have achieved the most remarkable feat in the history of flying. Mollison has supreme faith in his | small Moth aeroplane, and declared before his departure that his main purpose was to demonstrate once again the superiority of British light aircraft. The following telegram has been sent to Mollison by Lord Londonderry, Secretary of State for Air: — "On behalf of the Air Council I send you warm congratulations on your great flight, which once again has given striking proof, not only »of your personal skill and courage, but also of the efficiency of British aircraft and British aero engines."
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/RMPOST19320822.2.32.4
Bibliographic details
Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 307, 22 August 1932, Page 5
Word Count
142FIRST SOLO CROSSING Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 307, 22 August 1932, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Rotorua Morning Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in