LINDBERGH FLIES IN SNOW STORM
(Continued from Page 1.) ALMOST STRUCK WAVES GRUELLING EXPERIENCE By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyrigl' Reed. 1.50 p.m. PARIS, Sunday. Captain Lindbergh, in conversation with the United States Ambassador, said that though the weather reports were most favourable when he started, he soon ran into a snow storm, and frozen snow settled on his machine. This added considerably to itr weight. Lindbergh advanced a theory tha: a similar storm may have caused Cap tain Nungessor’s plane to fall. A deadly fog deprived Lindbergh of sight of water for hours on end and once disaster nearly overtook him. He was sweeping downward and discovered that he was just a few feet from the waves.
Had he touched them he would have been unable to rise again. Comparison between Lindbergh’s and Allcock and Brown’s times shows that the American sfveraged 1071 mile' an hour and the Englishmen 118.—.’ and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 51, 23 May 1927, Page 12
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