PHYSICAL MACHINE.
MOLLISON ADMITS STRAIN. (British Official Wireless.) BUG BY, September 2. In replying to a cablegram from Lord Wakefield, urging Mr. Mollison to abandon his return flight across the Atlantic, the airman said: "Unfortunately my human machinery has not stood the strain as well as my machine and engine. I realise that any mishap to my physical element would be detrimental to the best interests of aviation which you have done so much to further." . Mr. Mollison, who flew to Quebec from Sydney, Nova Scotia, to join the Empress cf Britain for Home, first brought his aeroplane down in a field on the south side of the St. Lawrence River Later he hopped off again, crossed the river and the airport at Quebec. Plis machine is to be' crated and shipped to London on the liner.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 209, 3 September 1932, Page 9
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