ATLANTIC FLIGHT ATTEMPT.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20552, 21 May 1932, Page 15

ATLANTIC FLIGHT ATTEMPT.

WOMAN TO FLY SOLO. FIRST STAGE COMPLETED. (UKITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) NEW YORK, May 19. A report from Hasbrouck Heights (Now Jersey) states that Mrs Amelia Earhart Putnam (the well-known (American woman flyer) took off from Peterboro Airport this afternoon for Harbour Grace (Newfoundland) on the first leg of what she hopes will be the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic. She may stop at St. John, New Brunswick, to-night. She is accompanied on the first stage by Bernt Balchen (the famous, pilot) and Eddie Gorski, mechanic, and is using a fast Lockheed monoplane. ARRIVAL AT ST. JOHN. ST. JOHN (New Brunswick), May 19. Mrs Putnam arrived this evening. Mrs Amelia Earhart Putnam was the first woman to fly the Atlantic, though on the occasion of that feat (June 18th, 1928) she was accompanied by a pilot (Wilmer Stulz) and a mechanic (Lou Gordon). Starting from Trepassey, Newfoundland, in a Fokker monoplane, they landed, after 22 hours in the air, in an estuary of the Welsh coast. Mrs Putnam has since, on June 22nd, 1931, completed the first flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific and back in an autogyro, flying more than 11,000 miles. Other women who have made notable flights are: — . The Duchess of Bedford, who, with Captain C. D. Barnard and Mr R. Little, in 1929 flew 9000 miles from England-India-England in 7\ days. Miss Amy Johnson, who made the first flight from England to Australia by a woman pilot in May, 1930, flying 9960 miles in 19 days. She flew alone in a Moth aeroplane. In August last year Miss Johnson flew from London to Tokyo, via Siberia, in 10} days, beating by a few hours the 11-day light aeroplane record between the two cities made by Seiji Yoshihara, the Japanese airman. Miss Peggy Salaman (19 years of age), who, with a male companion as co-pilot, made a record flight from London to Cape Town in 01 hours' actual flying time, beating the previous record flight of Commander Glen KHston by 1 day 1 hour 23 minutes. Mile. Maryse Bastie, French airwoman, who in June, 1931, flying from Lo Bourget to Prino, near Nijni Novgorod, Eussia, covered 1805 miles, breaking tho women's long-distance flight record of 1430 miles made by Mile. Lena Bernstein. Miss Euth Nichols (New York), who made a non-stop flight of 1977 miles from Oakland, California, to Louisville, Kentucky, in October, 1931—a now record. She had previously made an altitude world record for women, Teaching 28,743 feet, beating the record of 27,743 feet set up in 1930 by Miss Elinor Smith. Miss Nichols also flew over a three-kilometre course at an average speed of 210.65 miles an hour, and reaching in one lap 226.88 miles an hour. Last June she crashed and was greviously injured. Miss if. Tront and Miss E. May, who established a world's refuelling endurance flight for women at Los Angeles. They were in the air for 123 hours. Fraulein Elli Beinhorn, who arrived at Darwin on March 22nd, completing a solo flight to Australia.

GERMAN FLYING-BOAT TO CROSS. DO.X COMPLETES FIRST STAGE. NEW YORK, May 19. The German air-liner Do.X took off at 4 a.m. to-day for Harbour Grace on the first lap of its return flight to Lake Constance, Switzerland, having arrived here last August, with a crew of 14 aboard. A message from Halifax (Nova Scotia) later said that Do.X passed overhead at 10.15 a.m.