OFF ON FAR FLIGHT
FROM ONTARIO BEACH
CANADIAN AIRMEN'S AIM
MOLLISON MACHINE
(British Official Wireless.) (Beceived August 9, 11 a.m.)
BUGBY, August 8,
Two Canadian airmen, Captain Leonard Beid and Captain Ayling, .both of whom have spent several years in England, took off from Wasaga Beach on the shores of Lake Ontario early this morning in an attempt to cross the Atlantic and, if tho conditions are favourable, to continue. non-stop to Bagdad in an effort to Meat tho SCOO miles non-stop fligh; record set up by tho French airmen, MM. Codds and Rossi. The weather conditions over EasternCanadaand the North Atlantic were reported favourable. ■ Captain Beid is a member of the London Aero Club and Captain Ayling was formerly an officer in tho Boyal Air Force. Their machine, now called The Trail of the Caribou, was formerly called the Seafarer, and was flown across tho Atlantic last year by Mr. and Mrs. Mollison. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 34, 9 August 1934, Page 13
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154OFF ON FAR FLIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 34, 9 August 1934, Page 13
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