TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT
AMBITIOUS ATTEMPT FAILS REICHERS FORCED DOWN (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) HARBOUR GRACE (Newfoundand), , May 13. Reichers hopped off for Dublin at 8.30 a.m, bn Friday, after a two-hour delay in repairing the stabiliser, which was broken on landing here from' Newark in 6 hours 22 minutes. The weather is favourable, and he said he hoped to make 200 miles per hour. THE PILOT INJURED. NEW YORK, May 13. •' (Received May 13, at 5.5 p.m.) A report from the s.s. Roosevelt at sea states that Reichers was forced down 47 miles off the Fastnet Light to night. He was rescued suffering from' several injuries. A previous message stated: Lou Reichers, the young New Jersey speed pilot, departed from Newark (New Jersey) at 11.5 p.m. on Thursday night on a two-hop flight to Paris, where he hopes to land within 17 hours. He will refuel at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, and Baldonnell Field, Dublin. He is flying a low-winged monoplane named Liberty, which has a cruising range of 200 miles an hour. He hopes that by maintaining nearly top_ speed _ and making his fuel halts brief it will be possible to halve Colonel ■ Lindbergh s record time, e
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21645, 16 May 1932, Page 7
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