FLYING NEWS
SOUTH ATLANTIC SERVICE
SUCCESSFUL "INAUGURATION IN RECORD TIME.
f r; p A by Elec. Tel. Copyright.) ( ‘ LONDON, Jun. 16. A triple-engined 12-ton aeroplane piloted by Captain Mermoz, and with a crew of six, including the constructor Rene Couzinuet, left for St. Louis’(Senegal), at 4.48 a.m. for Natal (Brazil) ,to demonstrate the practicability of a regular South Atlantic s erA wifeless message at 8.10 stated: ‘GUI well; hoping to maintain a speed of 150 miles an hour.’- \ message from Natal, _ Brazil, states that the aeroplane Rainbow arrived there to-day at 1.40 p.m., Las era standard time. NATAL (Brazil), Jan. 10.
Captain Merrnox averaged more than 140 miles an hour, .suttmg a ecord of 14 hours 2 minute* foi the South Atlantic. Ho and lib fat) wore tin, f.i,l to breakfast in Africa »nd dmc m Brazib -
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11836, 18 January 1933, Page 5
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