POST NOT SATISFIED
ALASKA MOST DIFFICULT HOP Rec. July 23, 7 p.m. New York, July 23. Post is far from satisfied with his performance. "I could take thC Winnie May with its present equ'ipment Und good weather and make it in 41 'days," he said. He added that he had no definite plans f of Unother world or other flight. In his last trifi Alaska had been his most difficult flying country. That wUs the only place where he had been unhble tb locate himself. Post said that he had dozed several times eri 'route from ' Edmonton to New Yofk. The robot pilot, working weU, had piloted' him i'n five minute spells, after leaving New York until h'e; w'as within 30 minutes of BerliU. He had - also used it on the flight Tn/iiviysrif nn Ea Newark (New
Jersey). ; Questioned regarding the. possihilities of a world re-fuelling flight, Post said' that re-fuelling in' th'e' Mr was senseless. "It takes such a short time to land and 'take on fuel."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 591, 24 July 1933, Page 5
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