Famous Aviator 111
FLIGHT ROUND WORLD. ATLANTA (Georgia, U.S.), Dec. 24. Harold Gatty, the round-the-world aviator, is in hospital seriously ill with influenza. Wiley Post, his flight companion, is constantly attending him. They are in Georgia on a lecture trip. Gatty, who is a Tasmanian, eamo into prominence in July, when he was navigator to Wiley Post, the one-eyed American aviator, in a round-the-world flight. They circled the Northern Hemisphere in S days 15 hours 51 minutes, their actual flying time being 103 hours. Altogether, they covered 15,484 miles over land, water and ice.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6747, 4 January 1932, Page 7
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94Famous Aviator III Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6747, 4 January 1932, Page 7
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