ATLANTIC AIR TRADE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11405, 5 January 1931, Page 5

ATLANTIC AIR TRADE

PLANE LEAVES NEW YORK FOR • .PARIS*

YOUNG WIDOW AND NAVY LIEUTENANT IN CHARGE

TRIP EXPECTED TO LAST FIFTY. HOURS

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Jan. 4, 5.3 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan, 3.

• Airs , Hart,, who is a widow, aged £7, one ..of the few. women holding an unlimited transport license, and Lieut. William Maclaren, former Navy flie.r, took, off today: in the plane. "Trade Wind” with a pay load to prove that ocean flying can he put on a paying commercial basis fed’ Paris, via Bermuda. s and the Azores,

Maclaren is at the, controls, hut Mrs Hart li's expected to replace him after the start., and do the bulk of tlio (piloting.

It is planned to stop three hours at Hamilton (Be.rmuda<) and it is hoped to reach Paris within fifty houVs. The cargo is destined for Stamp collectors, along the way. ..... The machine is a black and white Bellanca monoplane, similar to 'the Coljiimbia, fitted with a 3001 horsepower Wright Whirlwind motor, and a pontoon. There is no radio. The steamer Bermuda, later reported the plane 370 miles south-east (U.P.A by Elec. Tel. Copyright) ((Received Jan. 4, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan, 3. A message from Hamilton states that the ‘Trade Wind” was not reported on Saturday evening. It was last sighted 300 miles distant by the steamer Bermuda, DAMAGE TO SEXTANT MACHINE RETURNS AFTER NEARING BERMUDA , (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Jan. 4, 6.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 3. The New York Times’ Norfolk .(Virginia) correspondent.-states that the monoplane “Trade Wind”, after reaching a distance believed to be only 75 miles from Bermuda, was compelled to return, and landed at Norfolk.this evening. Damage to the sextant made further navigation uncertain. She will re-fuel to-morrow and resume her journey. FLIGHT TO BE RESUMED. (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright! (Received Jan. 4, 8.17 p.m.) VANCOUVER, Jan. 4. A Norfolk (Virginia) message says, "A damaged sextant and a shift in the wind encountered within a few miles of Bermuda caused the failure of the first attempted ‘payload’aeroplane flight from New York to Paris. The Trade Mark was forced to turn hack and landed on Saturday night nt Hampton Roads naval .station, more than fifteen hours after the take-off from Net York. She had flown approximately fifteen hundred miles when she landed at 9.25 p.m. east. The flight will he resumed ou Monday over the same route.