THE GRAF ZEPPELIN
f TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT. REPORTED OVER TENERIFPE. (United Press tasaciatlcn.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)' NEW VORK, May 20. A message from Teneriffe (Canary Islands) states that the Graf Zeppelin passed at 3.40 p.m., New York standard time. MAKING STEADY PROGRESS. NEW YORK, May 20. (Received May 21, at 7 p.m.) The Graf Zeppelin reports that she has passed the Canaries and continues to make good speed through favourabe warm weather towards Pernambuco, where she hopes to arrive on Thursday morning. Some slight difficulty was experienced with equally side winds, but the paeengers are comfortable and have taken numerous photographs. A CHANGE OF COURSE. NEW YORK, May 20. (Received May 21, at 8 p.m.) The latest reports concerning the Graf Zeppelin indicate that there has been some confusion in the time of the flight owing to the dirigible’s change of the course in the neighbourhood of the Canaries to avoid bad weather and attempt to reach the trade winds westward to the Canaries. The ah ship is now _ presumably well past the islands and is proceeding for Pernambuco at 70 miles an hour. She is experiencing good weather.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21032, 22 May 1930, Page 9
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