ATLANTIC PROBLEM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 195, 19 July 1937, Page 7

ATLANTIC PROBLEM.

WEATHER FOR FLIGHTS. NEW YORK, July 18. The Pan-American Clipper arrived at Port Botwood, Newfoundland, from Ireland at 6.49 a.m. on Friday. The crossing took 16 hours 28 minutes. Captain Gray, in a copyright message to the North American Newspaper Alliance, stated that despite the highly satisfactory nature of both crossings the problem of the establishment of a trans-Atlantic service was far from solved, due to the variable weather conditions. More than one route must be llown and surveyed. “We are not able to give a satisfactorily glowing picture of what flying the Atlantic is like,” he said. “That will come later when the Atlantic- represents a course instead of a mathematical problem.’’

PILOT CONGRATULATED

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 16. The messages of congratulation received by the pilots of the flying boats Caledonia and the Clipper 111 on the completion of their double flight ncross the Atlantic included telegrams from the Air Minister, Lord Swinton. The average head wind encountered by the Clipper on the westward voyage did not exceed five miles an hour. Her time from Fo.vnes (Ireland) to Boston (Newfoundland) was 16 hours 24 minutes. It is understood that a double crossing will take place on July 29 according to the present plans of Imperial Airways. The flying boat Cambria will be engaged on that occasion. Later on in the year the Caledonia will make another flight.