TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
IRELAND TO OTTAWA
BRITISHERS TO MAKE THE ATTEMPT.
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 2.10 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Aug. 19. Leslie Hamilton and Liont.-Colonel Minchin, Imperial Airways pilot, have arrived at Bristol from Amsterdam in a Fokker monoplane, en route to Dublin, where they will take off ior a trans-Atlantic flight to Ottawa. The machine lias no wireless, and will carry four and a half tons of petrol in the tanks, and it will not float on descending to tlio sea. Air. Hamilton says: ‘‘My only regret is that it is not an all-British job, but time did not permit us to have a special machine built.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 August 1927, Page 9
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108TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 August 1927, Page 9
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