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NORTH ATLANTIC FLIGHT. BETWEEN EUROPE AND AMERICA INVESTIGATION IN THE ARCTIC. 'United Press Association —Copyright.’ (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) OTTAWA, August 20. Canadian aviation authorities think that Captain Von Gronau’s flight from Iceland to Labrador seems to prove conclusively the feasibility or tiie North Atlantic air route as the one eventually to be adopted between Europe and America. A group of voung English explorers now in Arctic is gathering data with, the intention of planning a route from Europe into Central Canada, probably Winnipeg. VON GRONAU’S PROGRESS. ■ s ARRIVAL AT HALIFAX. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) HALIFAX, August 20. Captain Von Gronau and his three •companions arrived here at 3 p.m. (local time), and immediately started re-fuelling preparatory to resuming their flight to New York.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 268, 26 August 1930, Page 5
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