ATLANTIC FLIGHT
ATTEMPT IN SMALL PLANE TWO YOUNG MEN LEAVE NOVA SCOTIA. “POINTERS" FROM CORRIGAN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day. 10 a.m.ST PEOERS (Nova Scotia 1 , August 11. Two New Yorkers. Alex Loeb, aged 32. and Dick Deceker, aged 23, announcing that their destination was Ireland, took off from Point Michaud Beach in a Ryan monoplane, carrying 350 gallons of petrol, at 9 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. They remarked prior to their departure that they were friends of Douglas Corrigan (who flew the Atlantic in a small plane and declared he had done so by mistake). They said of Corrigan: “He gave us many valuable pointers.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1939, Page 8
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107ATLANTIC FLIGHT Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1939, Page 8
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