NON-STOP FLIGHT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 244, 14 September 1932, Page 7

NON-STOP FLIGHT

ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

ATTEMPT BY AMERICANS.

DOCTOR HEADS EXPEDITION

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received September 14, 8.45 a.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 13.

Dr Leon Pisculli, of Yonkers, New York, commander of the expedition, Mr William Ulbrich, of Mineola, New York, pilot, and Miss Edna Newcomer, aged 28, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, nurse and parachute jumper, hopped off this morning on an attempted nonstop flight to Rome in the ’plane Arpericun Nurse, formerly the one in which Messrs Herndon and Pangborn flow around the world, but refurnished and renamed.

Miss Newcomer intends to step out of the ’plane with a parachute when over Florence, Italy, as a tribute to Miss Florence Nightingale. Dr Pisculli said he would make medical observations as to the effect of a Trans-Atlantic flight on the occupants, including tho doctor’s pet woodchuck, Tailwind, which is being taken along to detect carbon monoxide, the doctor believing that some Trans-Atlantic fliers havo been lost through this poison. The weather was ideal when the ’piano took off. On© object of tho flight, Dr Pisculli said, was to encourage nurses and physicians to take up flying and parachute jumping in order to oe prepared for quick emergency work in the event of floods and other disasters. The ’plane carries no radio.

Messrs Herndon and Pangborn, two American aviators, flew across tho Atlantio in July, 1930, in 25 hours 15 minutes, abandoning tho attempt to beat tho round-the-world record later after reaching Khabarovsk.