TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 17, 14 October 1927, Page 11

TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT

AEROPLANE AMERICAN GIRL OVERDUE ANXIETY CAUSED BY BAD WEATHER REPORTS EXCITEMENT IN PARIS The aeroplane The American Girl, which left New York on Tuesday for Paris, is overdue, and anxiety concerning its safety has been increased by reports of bad weather in the Atlantic.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright,

London, October 12

Up to midnight there was no news of Miss Elder’s aeroplane The American Girl, though it was expected to land in Paris at noon on Thursday. Paris is once again in the throes of the trans-Atlantic flight fever. Miss Elder’s flight has roused' popular imagination to the same height as Lindbergh's did. At Le Bourget the officials are elaborately planning to maintain order, roping off the aerodrome, with admission by special passes, with a squadron of airmen to meet the visitors. ,(Rec. October 13, 7 p.m.) New York, October 12. Thirty hours after the departure of The American Girl, only one ship had reported sighting the 'plane, 500 miles at sea, five hours after its departure. No further word has been received after that, although it is estimated that several hundred ships are plying the route which the machine is taking. Meteorologists state that if the aeroplane is still flying it should be approximately 1200 miles from its destination and entering the storm area.

London, October 13.

Anxiety is increasing concerning Miss Ruth Elder and Captain Haldemann, as a result of news of extremely bad weather in the Atlantic in the neighbourhood of the Azores. The Le Bourget staff is remaining on duty all night, and the Paris-London air route is illuminated.

The American Girl, a single-engined monoplane, carrying Miss Ruth Elder and Captain George Haldemann, copilots, hopped off on Tuesday from Roosevelt Field for a non-stop flight via the Maine Coast and Noya Scotia on the Lindbergh route to Paris. GERMAN ’PLANE FORCED DOWN BOUND FOR AMERICA Berlin, October 12. The German pilot Heinkel in a seaplane with a 800 horse-power engine and a crew of three departed for America, but came down in the western end of the Kiel Canal.—A.P.A. and “Sun.’’