FLIGHT ROUND WORLD

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1014, 3 July 1930, Page 18

FLIGHT ROUND WORLD

AMERICAN TO MAKE ATTEMPT John IT. Mears, a New York millionaire, intended leaving New York at end of June on a flight round the the world in an attempt to break the record of 21 days established by the Graf Zeppelin during May, 1929. On the flight he will use a Lockhead Vega plane, powered with a Wasp engine. His itinerary takes in a flight across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. He will fly across the Atlantic from New York to Southampton, and will go thenco to Berlin, Moscow. Novosibirsk, Chita, Khabarovsk, Petropavlovsk, Seward, Seattle, Chicago, New York. Mr. B. Balchen, who was in Byrd’s Antarctic Expedition, will act as pilot and navigator. Before the war Mr. Mears established a record for travelling round the world, using the then-existing means of transportation—railway, I boat, motor-car and horse-driven ! vehicles. This record was later j broken bv Messrs. Linton and Wells, of New York, but in 1928 Mr. Mears succeeded in creating a new record. I using steamship and airplane. He ! took 23 days on the journey.