BACK AT CONTROLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 92, 19 April 1941, Page 8

BACK AT CONTROLS.

VETERAN U.S. PILOT. NIGHT FLIGHT REPEATED. SAN I- i: ANI ]v( o. M. m ]i 311. \\'ith wtiTiiii |i'l<M eii]ituiii .Jiick Kuiplit ill tin- fiiiiti-nK. I niti-il Air Lines" trip Hi roil red nsit of Sun Frmu-ifru recently on it- t-chwluled flight to Chicago. l'lpv<fliili(l mid New York.

But in tlir lirii-f hiwtoiy of I'nited States avintiiui. the fliplit hoKl >]>ecinl liignificiiiue, fur it \vn«. jn-t 20 year*

ii.irn thai the first day and nieht trans-i-MiitiiM'iitiil llijjht wh- made in America vrith tin- -ame Captain Knipln llviii-j tlio nijilit |Mirtioii of the 1 lion hazardous trip. i'lir -amo farmer-—o r in some casetheir M.ns lit auiiiii hemtirco nnd oilr>oll ktil hay-tuck-, that in H)JI guided the frail iK> llnvilliiiiil monoplane n> ire domination. At each Mop nlonjr tlio inidciiiitiiifiil route potma-ter- and ehil ollieial- were mi han<l t.. welcome Kn:»]it and tn -liiyo 1,,< ;1 I ii-Ivlnati»ii-. So -|n'il:niilur «ii- KnifjlitV rarl\ llk'lit thin ill,- I'.S. Con^iv—. uliii-h lia'd hocn ■•(iii.;<|i>riii-j ciinrt-llaiiiiii of tho ••ill-rial mail" μ-ixm-.. 1,,5-.,um- of iho in-00--iiy <if lrainiii'j; mail at ni'j'ut. not only ri-iKuvcd <uncnt allot inoiilV. Imt voted ninri' nwnii>y f.>r tin- ,-tal»-li-liincn( (if tlio lu-cMMit li»lit«I boa.-on-. Tlic l:i-p\ haired pilot, who ha* (lowii mil(.<. iiiorc than nny oi!,or man in t in- world. ; ~ now director of pulilii- oduciitinii for Initcd Air l.iuo>. \vlii<-li look inn from the Co\ i-riiinont air mail rontruot- f,,,. ,]„. ~,,1 u. ( 1 , Ili{ }. folitiiu-tit rout,.. mloi|m with a nmnl.or of the early air mail pilot-10-11 ni:,-,-,,,,,,;,., (li-l.t took a little over 1". hour-. ;■- <ontra-ted with :\4 hours in in L >|.