TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 16 June 1919, Page 7

TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT

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(Received June 16 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, June 15. Alcock and Brown are woli and in good spirits after their sixteen hoursBight. The wireless propeller flew off shortly after leaving Stt. John's, and the wireless was much jammed' by messages not intended for the machine. Aloock and Brown were flying 16 kours 12 minutes. Arriving at the wireJess station at difden they circled round the aerials looking for a landing Finally, slightly damaged, the machine landed m a bog. The 4 Marconi staff rushed to their assistance and found Brown dazed and Alcock deaf from the shock of landing. The staff escorted the aviators triumphantly, receiving them into their house, where they soon xully recovered. Brown states that they were constantly in thick fog and mist, and sometimes found themselves flying 11,000 feet, at other times upside down ten feet from the water.