AVIATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1936, Page 7

AVIATION

AMY MOLLISON’S RETURN. [RY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received Maj' 11. 1 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, May 10. Taking advantage of the perfect weather and early moonlight, Amy Mollison took off at 9 p.m. (Summertime). in the attempt to beat Rose’s record homeward, taking the east coast route. She hopes to reach London by 11 p.m. on Wednesday. ZEPPELIN’S ARRIVAL NEW YORK, May 9. The Zeppelin Hindenburg was moored at Lakehurst at 6.1 G o’clock this morning, thus completing her first commercial north trans-Atlantic flight in the unofficial time of sixty-one hours and forty-six minutes. At one o’clock on Saturday morning, radio reports indicated that the Zeppelin had passed the Nantuckett Lightship, and was within three hours’ cruising distance of New York. It arrived over Lower. New York at five o’clock. It flew in a majestic sweep over Manhattan to loud acclaim from the whistles of the harbour craft. It was just before dawn as the giant craft nosed its way up Broadway and a few were awake to witness its arrival as the airship turned and flew across the North River towards Lakehurst. The liner Bremen played a powerful searchlight on the swastikas decorating the Zeppelin’s fins.