NORTH PACIFIC FLIGHT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20669, 15 September 1930, Page 9

NORTH PACIFIC FLIGHT.

JAPAN TO AMERICA. START IN GOOD WEATHER. BROMLEY AND COMPANION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received Septembei H, 6.25 p.m.) TOKIO, Sept. 14. Lieutenant Harold Bromley, formerly of Victoria, British Columbia, and Mr. Harold Gatty, an Australian airman, started at 5.10 a.m. to-day on their attempted flight to America. The weather was perfect and a slight, westerly br'ceze was blowing. A message from San Francisco says the officials of the United Stales Weather Bureau informed Lieutenant Bromley that, good flying conditions probably would prevail over tlio Northern Pacific for the latter portion of the flight.

Tl*3 conditions from the Aleutian Islands to Tacoma, Washington, would bo unsettled for the next three days. The winds would bo strong from the west, with a velocity of 40 to 50 miles an hour at high altitudes

By taking advantage of these condi tions tho airmen would have advantage ous tail winds and low clouds.

Four hours after the departuro of the airmen a wireless messago was received from them at Tokio saying they had passed over Hokkaido Island, 350 miles distant.