WITH PASSENGERS.
First Atlantic Flight By
Yankee Clipper.
ALONG NORTHERN ROUTE,
(Kecelvivl 1.30 p.m.) LONDON', June 20. Tim Yankee Clipper arrived fit Southampton to-day on the inaugural /light of tho passenger and mail service across the North Atlantic The (light from Botwood, Newfoundland, was accomplished in 1H hours 42 minutes. Colonel Edgar Gorrcll, president of tlie American Air Transport Association, who was a passenger, said in an interview that he expected to see high-flying aircraft regularly flying between America and Australia, via the South Pole, within ten years. Ho thought tho North Polar route would also be regularly used for commercial flying. He added that sixenpined aircraft were already being built in tho United Stutes.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 152, 30 June 1939, Page 8
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