RECORD FLIGHT
(British Official Wireless)
mrs. j. a. mollison ALL KINDS OF WEATHER ENOOUNTERED ON FLIGHT BLOWN OUT TO SEA '
Rec. Dec. 20. Rugby Dec. 19. A huge crowd welcomed Mrs. Amy Mollison on her arrival at Croydon. Although delayed by exceptionally had weather, Mrs. Mollison has established a fresh record Tor the Cape-town-London journey. Mrs. Mollison's return journey of 6200 miles occupied seven days seven hours five minutes, compared with four days six hours fifty-three minutes on the outward fllght. The previous best time for the Capetown-London flight was that of the Duchess of Bedford iand Captain Barnard, who in 1930 completed the flight in ten »days. After landing at Croydon wh'ere she was welcomed on behalf of the Air Ministry, Mrs. Mollison received numerous congratulatory messages including one from the King and another from the Royal Aeronautical Society. Mrs. Mollison proceeded to her home at the West End, heing greeted all along the route by cheering crowds. The Trip Described Describing the journey the aviatrix said her worst experience was an all night flight before a tornado between Duala and Mossamedes on the way south, when she xvas blown 100 miles out to sea and had considerable difficulty in fighting her way back to land. On the same part of her flight she felt danger on her way home, for she encountered a thick cloud end in order to avoid the 13,000 feet mountains in the neighbourhood she had again to go out to -sea, fmding- her course by flying very low along the coastline. When flying through a valley in the Atlas Mountains she struggled against a 75 miles an h'our wind, and had to proceed crabwise up the valley in imminent danger of being driven against the rocky sides. She met almost every kind of weather, including snow, during the journey but showed few 'signs of fatigue on reaching Croydon. She paid a warm tribute to the Puss Moth machina and the Gpysy engine of which she said never missed a revolution.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 411, 21 December 1932, Page 5
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