CALIFORNIA TO JAPAN
NON-STOP FLIGHT PROJECTED, By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received July 21, 5.5 p.m. United Service. Washington, July 19. At' Tacoma, Lieut. Harold Bromley, a native of Victoria, 8.C., formerly or the R.A.F., completed a non-stop flight from Los Angeles on Friday evening in a special Lockhead monoplane named the City of Tacoma. ' Lieut. Bromley proposes within a few days to start a non-stop solo flight to Japan in the" same machine. Hehaa extensively tested the plane in California and tested himself to withstand sleep. Twenty thousand persons welcomed him, - National Guardsmen controlling the throngs.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1929, Page 11
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