PROPOSED AIR LINE.
BERMUDA AND NEW YORK.
ROUND FLIGHT COMPLETED.
(Received Juno 30, 5.5 p.m.)
NEW YORK, Juns 29
Mr. Roger Q. Williams, with two companions, in the Bellanca monoplane Columbia, landed oil the Curtiss field at 10.10 p.m to day, after a round-trip flight from Bermuda, which took 17 hours 8 minutes for 1560 miles. The airmen took off at 5.2 a.m. from Roosevelt field, and arrived at Bermuda in 9.J hours. They dropped the mail on a golf course. They had good weather throughout
They were testing tho practicability of a New York-Bermuda commercial air line.
Mr. Roger Williams flew from Old Orchard, Maine, to Rome, non-stop, in tho Bellanea monoplane Pathfinder last year. Mr. Lewis Yancey was with him. He is an instructor at Roosevelt field, Long Island.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20604, 1 July 1930, Page 11
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