22,000-MILE FLIGHT

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 51, 24 November 1930, Page 11

22,000-MILE FLIGHT

Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh AROUND CAPE HORN (Rec. November 23, 5.5 p.m.) New York, November 21. Following a preliminary flight to the Pacific Coast and back, Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh will soon leave on a 22,000 mile air tour down the Atlantic Coast to South America, around Cape Horn, returning up the Pacific Coasts of South and North America for inspection of the Pan-American airways lines It is understood the preliminary trip will be for the purpose of the installation of a new wing on the 'plane which the Lindberghs used on their record flight in April. A new 600 horse-power Wright motor has also been installed. In April last Colonel Lindbergh, with his wife, set a new trans-continental speed record when they landed at Lockhead in a Sirius plane in 14 hours 44 minutes after leaving- Glendale. Cali fornia. at 8.26 in the morning. New York time. Colonel Lindbergh made one stop of twenty minutes to refuel at Wiehita, Kansas. The entire flight was made at altitudes of 11.000 and 20.000 feet. Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh made the flight to prove that trans-continental air express planes may fly more swiftly with less storm resistance at .high altitudes.