MERCURY’S FLIGHT
NEW YORK ENTHUSIASM ROYAL VISIT TO PARIS NEW YORK, July 25. “I am amazed at the enthusiasm of the crowd over the flight.” Captain 3ennett, Australian, pilot of the Mercury component of the composite aaroplane which flew the Atlantic in record east-west time, said this when he and his crew were welcomed at New York. British newspapers, half a toil of .hem, carried on the aeroplane, found avid buyers. They were sold in New fork streets for from 2s 6d to ss. They contained stories and accoimts of the visit of the King and Queen to Paris. _ _ Various notable people,. .including President Roosevelt, were presented with copies inscribed by the flyers. The pilot told reporters that difficult flying conditions and heavy rams and wind on the greater part of 'the-ocean crossing had reduced the average speed to slightly more than 130 miles an hour.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19700, 4 August 1938, Page 7
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