HOPE WANING.
AMERICAN AIRMAN.
"Flight Across Atlantic Sheer
Madness." 85-M.P.H. 'PLANE USED. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 30. The young airman, Mr. Thomas H. Smith, who left Old Orchard, Maine, United States, on Sunday, in an attempt to fly across the Atlantic in a small single-motored aeroplane, is missing, overdue somewhere in Britain, if credibility can be attached to reports that he was sighted at several points. Hope has been virtually abandoned, there being nothing to confirm rejwrts that the machine was three times sighted yesterday. Mr. Smith's machine was reported to have been seen over Foynes and Renfrew, and Speke aerodrome, Liverpool, later announced the passage of an aeroplane resembling Mr. Smith's, but its identity was not confirmed. Several thousand people attended at Croydon in the hope of greeting the flyer, but pilots and officials were not convinced he would arrive, declaring that such a flight in an 8;>-miles-an-hour aeroplane was sheer madness.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 126, 31 May 1939, Page 11
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157HOPE WANING. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 126, 31 May 1939, Page 11
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