TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20620, 9 August 1932, Page 9

TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

DOUBLE CROSSING. MR MOLLISON'S PROJECT. (OKIIED I'ttSSS ASSOCIATION—BY ELSCTJUC TELEGRAPH—COPTBIODT.) (Received August Bth, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, August S. The "Daily Express" says that Mr J. A. Mollison will leave Stag Lane aefodromo at noon on Tuesday. Confronted with a dramatic dilemma at the last momont, he had to decide whether he would fly in the dangorous hours of darkness while physically fresh and the machine full of petrol, or at tho end of the trip when tired out, but the machine light, and therefore more capable of making a high altitude. He says: "I have decided to consider the capabilities of the machine in preference to a purely physical consideration of my own ability to keep awake." He. plans to leave Port M»«*ock Beach at nine o'clock in the morning, fly throughout the night, and 1 -ich America about daybreak. He will stay in New York tho shortest time possible. He hopes to return in 3-J days. Mr Mollison does not regard the flight as being foolhardy, but as one carefully thought out and planned. He is convinced that tho machine, which is called "Heart's Contont," is trustworthy as he has seen what conscientious British workmen put into it. He will have petrol for 33 hours. He is flying a Gipsy three-engined aeroplane. The four oil tanks have been specially strengthened to take a load of 165 gallons of petrol. He is taking two compasses.