CAUSE OF FLIGHT
Famous Aviator’s Tale Mr. Janies Mollison, the aviator who has established many records, described to members of the Royal Aero Club at a meeting recently in Sydney how he was prompted to make his Atlantic flight. One night, lie said, he was at a cocktail party with a number of journalist friends. He had not contemplated an Atlantic flight up till then. One of his friends asked him what lie proposed to do next. Feeling in good form at the time he threw off the reply. "Fly across the Atlantic.” The reply was published, and consequently lie I'c'l that be had to make the trip. Soon afterward he found himself being farewclled by the Lord Mayor of London, and off he went, dubious about it, but obliged to go on, as Press planes accompanied him part of tlie way. “And,” lie said. "I somehow kept going until I found I had reached the coast of America.”
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 198, 19 May 1936, Page 16
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159CAUSE OF FLIGHT Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 198, 19 May 1936, Page 16
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