TRIBUTE TO PIONEER FLIERS
WREATH ON ALCOGELS GRAVE. British Official Wireless. Rugbv, June 24. A tribute to the memory of one of the pioneers of trans-Atlantic flying was paid yesterday by Lieutenant Stultz, pilot of Miss Earhart’s Atlantic seaplane Friendship, and Mr. Gordon, navigator of the machine. They flew to Manchester, and, after a civic reception, they laid a wreath on the grave of Sir John Alcock, who, with Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, made the first flight across the Atlantic in 1919.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1928, Page 9
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