CATAPULT MAIL
FRENCH PILOT'S STORY Australian Press Association. LONDON, 15th September. Lieut, de Mougcot, pilot of the French catapult mail air 'plane, lost off the .Scillies, states that when tho engine compelled him to descend, the sea was not rough enough to trouble (be liner, but was very bad for . the airplane, which rolled like a barrel with the waves. It was impossible to use wireless when the machine was floating on the surface, as the apparatus had only the smallest range, but all the time the aviators were ablu to receive signals from the lie de France and wireless stations. The two steamers wero sighted, but owing to tho haze failed to sco the hydroplane. De Mougeot .started the engine aiitl tried to reach them, but failed. Then a trawler arrived, and the aviators and mails wero taken aboard.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 57, 17 September 1928, Page 9
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