TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT

Temuka Leader, Issue 10894, 20 August 1932, Page 1

TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT

MOLLISON MAKES A GOOD START. AIDED BY A FOLLOWING WIND. LONDON, Aik. IS. Mollison’s machine rose perfectly after a run of a few hundred yards. Mollison said he proposed to Mv at half throttle, thereby increasing- the maximum range. lie would still be in the air after having- down 4,040 miles in thirty-eight hours. He carried petrol and oil equivalent to (he weight of eight adults, the greatest weight ever imposed on a light aeroplane. He passed Galway seventy minutes after leaving, and was making 104. miles an hour, allied by a following wind of fifteen miles an hoar. The weather and visibilty are favourable. MAY ENCOUNTER DISTURBANCES IN MID-OCEAN. MET EOKOLOG IST’S Vi E W W NEW YOKE. Aug. 18. Dr. Kemhall, the -noted aviation meteorologist, said Air Mollison. who has left Ireland on a trans-At-lantic Might, nmy run into local disturbances about mid-ocean. However, then- is no dclinile storm area across the route.