WORLD FLIGHT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 180, 2 July 1931, Page 7

WORLD FLIGHT

FINAL STAGE. POST AND GATTY. ARRIVAL AT CLEVELAND. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received July 2, 9.21) a.m. VANCOUVER, July 1. Captain Wiley Post and Lieutenant Harold Gatty, the two airmen who left Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, in the monoplane Winnie May, at 4.57 p.m., local time, last Tuesday, to rlv round the world, landed at Cleveland, Ohio, at 4.15 p.m. to-day from Edmonton, Alberta, which they reached yesterday. On Monday when Post and Gatty started their flight from New 5 ork they sent their laundry from the Roosevelt Field hotel. It returned to-day, while in the interval the owners had been almost round the world. They certainly needed it on arriving at Edmonton, with their wrinkled dirty collars and shirts. The dirt and grime was absolutely ground into their clothes. FRENCHMEN’S PLANS. MORE AMBITIOUS SCALE. PARIS, June 30. MM. Le Brix and Doret are ready to start a dash across the world on a more ambitious scale than the flight of Wilev Post and Harold Gatty. The plan is to carry out four nonstop laps of 60 hours each, as follows: —Paris to Tokio. Tokio to San Francisco, ’Frisco to New York, and New York to Paris. Their machine is fitted with tanks which will carry 1750 gallons of petrol. FLIGHT TO J APAN. MR CHICHESTER'S PLANS. LEAVING SYDNEY ON SATURDAY. Received July 2, 9.0 a.m. SYDNEY. July 2. Mr F. C. Chichester, the New Zealand airman, will not leave on his flight to Japan until Saturday.

INDIA RETURN FLIGHT. CAPTAIN STACK AT BAGDAD. Received July 2, 10.10 a.m. BAGDAD, July 1. Captain Neville Stack and Mr J. R. Chaplin, who are flying to India and back to England, have arrived here.