AVIATION
TRANS-ATLANTIC VENTURE. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, March 8. The New York Sun publishes a statement to the effect that secret arrangements were made for the Mac-kay-Hinchcliffe Trans-Atlantic flight but premature publicity forced them to abandon it. The Sun obtained as admission to this effect from John Gillespie, who is Hinchcliffe’s American manager, who added that the flight was to be undertaken despite the objections of Miss Mackay’s family. BENEFACTOR DEAD. NEW YORK, March 9.
A message from Atlantic City (New Jersey) states that Rodman Wanamaker, a New York and Philadelphia merchant, one of the earliest supporters of aviation, died to-day.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 March 1928, Page 7
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