ATLANTIC FLIGHTS
TWO-WAY TESTS
A FURTHER SUCCESS
(British Official■■ Wireless.) (Received July 31, 11.20 a.m.)
BUGBY, July 30,
Further trial transatlantic : flights were successfully completed this morning when, within ten minutes of each other, the Imperial Airways flyingboat Cambria, which left Foynes, Ireland, yesterday evening, landed at Botwood, Newfoundland, and the PanAmerican Clipper which left Botwood last night reached Foynes.
Wireless contact with the planes was maintained throughout their journeys by both craft, which passed one another in mid-Atlantic shortly before dawn, when they were eight miles apart. ~
The Cambria encountered a 40-mile-an-hour head wind lor much of the journey. , .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 27, 31 July 1937, Page 9
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