CHALLENGERS OF SPACE.
RECORD-BREAKING ATLANTIC
FLIERS.
POST AND GATTY CROSS IN UNDER SIXTEEN HOURS.
RUGBY, June 24. The record for an Atlantic flight, which was established in 1919 by the .English airmen, Sir John Alcock and Sir Whitten Brown, was broken to.day when, 15 hours '4B minutes after leaving Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, the'American airman Wiley Post, accompanied by the former Australia'! naval cadet, Harold Gatty, handed at the Sealand aerodrome, near Chester. They beat the record, which has stood for twelve years t>y 24 minutes. After a brief stay they left for Berlin on a further stage of their projected round-the-world flight. ARRIVAL AT MOSCOW. /jjy Telegraph-Press Assn —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) MOSCOW,, June 24. Wilev Post and Harold Gatty, who flew the Atlantic from Newfoundland, lave arrived here.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 June 1931, Page 5
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