ATLANTIC CROSSED
NOW ON WAY TO ROME (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Reed. 12.4 p.m. LONDON, Tuesday. A message from Santander, Spain, says that the American plane Pathfinder, which left Old Orchard, New Jersey, on Monday morning to fly across the Atlantic to Rome, landed on the beach owing to lack of petrol. The plane is now on its way to Rome. Santander, on the Bay of Biscay, is where the French plane Yellowbird landed after its Atlantic flight. A message from Old Orchard, Maine, on Monday said that the BellancaWriglit single-motored monoplane Pathfinder, with pilot Roger Q. Williams and navigator Lewis A. Yancy, took off for Rome at 8.49 that morning, expecting to make the 4,700-mile flight in from 45 to 50 hours.
PATHFINDER PLANE AT SANTANDER
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 711, 10 July 1929, Page 1
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