FLYING VENTURES
THE AMENIGAN AIRMEN. ICELAND TO GREENLAND Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, August 18. Authority for Lieutenant Locatelh, _tho Italian aviator, to accompany the United States world flyers from Reykjavik (Iceland) to Greenland has been given by the Chief of the Air Service, provided that the commander of the United State® . aviators is satisfied that the Italian, ’plane ; will not endanger the success of the | flight- . Plans are being made to re-fuel the flyers at sea if necessary in the long hop from Frederikshaal (Greenland), a distance of 825 miles. The nearer landmg places wore abandoned owing to th« I ice. ) The proposed flight will require twelve I hours in the air, and every confidence is | expressed that the jump'will be made ] safely.—Reuter. |
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Evening Star, Issue 18717, 20 August 1924, Page 6
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