AVIATION
TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT (United Preen Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian Press Association) LONDON, 9th June. The Stockholm aviator Ahrenberg plans to begin to-day a trails-Atlantic flight with hops from Stockholm to Bergen, Iceland', Greenland, Newfoundland and New York, using a seaplane with special floats to enable him to descend in rough sea. He is taking a reserve pilot and wireless operator. (Australian Press association—United 1 Service) (Received 10th June, i 0.30 a.m.) STOCKHOLM, 9th June ; Captain Ahrenberg, Sweden’s leading aviator, took off for New York, via Greenland, with two companions. He is not attempting a record, but trying to open up a-safe northern route of comparatively short hops, believing that it will ultimately be a commercial transatlantic route.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 10 June 1929, Page 5
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