MOLLISON'S PLANS
ATLANTIC FLIGHT WEST TO EAST NEXT MONTH SOLO ATTEMPT United Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received September 18, 10 a.m.) LONDON, September 17. Mr. J. A. Mollison is leaving for New York to attempt a third Atlantic flight in his Bellanca "Flash," which is capable of 270 miles an hour, and is reputed to be the fastest aeroplane in the world. He hopes to begin his flight on October 17, and flying at an altitude of 20,000 feet, reach .Croydon from New York in seventeen hours. Later he intends to try to break the record from England to Johannesburg and from England to the Cape, after which he will consider plans for a round-the-world flight at the Equator. He is to make all these flights alone,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 69, 18 September 1936, Page 9
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