LONG FLIGHT.
CHEERING SPECTATORS. MAUGHAN HONOURED. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received June 25, 9.35 a.m. SAN FRANCISCO, June 24. The demonstration accorded Maughan on completing his flight from New York was without a parallel in the history of local aviation. He made a landing without mishap on a brilliant pathway, huge, flares making the field almost as light as day. A cheering mass of spectators, broke through, the police line, and automobile ' horns shrieked, the whole producing a bedlam of noise.. Maughan was lifted from the cockpit by cheering comrades of the vice, and w<es carried off the field through a. swirling crowd. The landed time- is given officially as 9hrs 47min 15sec, making the total elapsed time for the trip 21 hrs 47min 45sec. The distance is 2850 miles and the average £peed was 156 1-5 miles per hour Maughan made five stops— at Dayton’ St Joseph, North Platte, Cheyenne' and Salemro. The time actually occupied m the flight was IShrs 20min Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 June 1924, Page 11
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164LONG FLIGHT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 June 1924, Page 11
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