AVIATION
A GRACEFUL TRIBUTE
BY ATLANTIC FLIERS.
TO MEMORY OF BRITISH PIONEERS.
[British Official Wireless.]
(Received 25, 11.30 a.m.) Rugby, June 24. A moving tribute to the memory of one of the pioneers of trans-Atlantic flying was paid yesterday by Lieut. Sturtz, pilot of Miss Earhart’s Atlantic seaplane Friendship, and Mr. Gordon, navigator of the machine. They flew to Manchester, and after a civic reception they laid a wreath on the grave of Sir John Alcock, who, with Sir Arthur Whitton Brown, made the first flight across the Atlantic in 1919.
The historic pioneer flight' referred to was accomplished by Alcock and Brown in 1919, when they won the “Daily Mail” prize of £lO,OOO offered originally in 1913 for the crossing of the Atlantic in 72 hours. All things considered, says the “Daily Mail, “including the state of aeroplane development at that time, this was probably the most wonderful feat ever accomplished by mortal man.” ANOTHER EARLY ATTEMPT. (Australian and N.Z. Press Assn.l Lisbon, June 23. Captain Courtenay states that he is leaving on Saturdsw for Horts. in the Azores, on the first stage of a projected trans-Atlantic flight.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 163, 25 June 1928, Page 5
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189AVIATION Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 163, 25 June 1928, Page 5
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