ATLANTIC CROSSING.
CAMBRIA’S FAST TIME. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. August 28. The fastest cast to west air crossing of the North Atlantic recorded so far during the present series of commercial survey flights was ac*<*oniplishcd yesterday by Ini|>erial Airways* fiying-boat Cambria. wliich left Foyms at 4.39 a.in. and landed at Dot-wood (Newfoundland) at 10.03 p.in.. G.M.T., completing the* riight in 14 hours 24 minutes at an average speed of approximately 140 miles an hour. The Cambria will fly to Montreal*. New York. Ottawa. Toronto. Windsor and Hamilton before making a west to east night crossing of the Atlanta* on September 8.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13644, 31 August 1937, Page 7
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101ATLANTIC CROSSING. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13644, 31 August 1937, Page 7
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