ATLANTIC FLIGHT

Southland Times, Issue 21429, 25 June 1931, Page 7

ATLANTIC FLIGHT

AVIATORS’ HASTY TAKE-OFF. POST AND GATTY IN THE AIR. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) Harbour Grace, June 23. Wiley Post and Harold Gatty hopped off for Berlin at 1.57 p.m. to-day. The takeoff was one of the most hasty in'the history of transoceanic flights. No sooner had the aviators landed from New York than they ate a hasty meal and rushed back to the'field to supervise the refuelling and inspected their plane, which after being warmed up hopped off. Thej' were even too busy to pose for the photographers. Evidently they gave little or no thought to the weather. NO NEWS FROM AIRMEN. (Rec. 7.45 p.m.) New York, June 23. Calculations placed the airmen Post and Gatty at 8.30 p.m. approximately halfway between the American and European continents. Three transatlantic steamships on Tuesday night had not reported news from the flyers. PLANE’S SIGNALS PICKED UP. (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) New York, June 24. Although they are almost ten hours out but one bit of information of Post and Gatty has been received, being that by the liner Drottningholm which picked up the plane’s call letters on Tuesday night. SECOND FLIGHT BEGINS. (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) Harbour Grace, June 24. Otto Hillig and Holger Hoirtis, co-pilots in the aeroplane Liberty, have commenced a transatlantic flight.