LONELY CROSSING

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1936, Page 9

LONELY CROSSING

NO SHIPS SIGHTED

WIFE'S CONGRATULATIONS

(Received October 31,. 10.50 a.m.)

LONDON, October 30.

A thousand spectators at Croydon welcomed Mr. Mollison, who said he did not sight any ships during the crossing, which was made at an average speed of 200 miles an hour. He did not see Ireland, and the first landfall was in Wales, where he picked up his position and made straight for Croydon. His worst experience was 600 miles out from Newfoundland when ice became troublesome at a height of 15,000 feet. / \ ■ '

Mr. Mollison was exhausted when he was lifted out of the machine. His first need was a whisky.

Mrs. Amy Mollison congratulates her husband on the finest flight., of his career, and expresses disappointment at her inability to meet him owing to the fact that she has been ordered to take a complete rest.

On May 21, 1932, Miss Amelia Earhart (now Mrs. Putnam) landed in a field in the mountainous country of Culimore, five miles from Derry, County Donegal, Ireland. She had left Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, the night before, and made the trip in 13 hours 30 minutes. The spot at which she landed was a' short distance from where Alcock and Brown came down after the first direct aeroplane (light from the American side of the Atlantic in 1919. Naval officers estimated that Miss Earhart covered 2026J miles.