LINDBERGH’S FLIGHT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19668, 9 December 1933, Page 2

LINDBERGH’S FLIGHT

RETURNING TO UNITED STATES United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph— Copyright NATAL (Brazil), December 7. Colonel and Mrs Lindbergh are prepared to start on the return flight to the United States via Para on Friday. The Colonel is busy inspecting and repairing the ’plane. Mrs Lindbergh Is sightseeing with the wife of the British Consul. [Colonel Lindbergh’s machine, a seaplane, is a Lockheed Sirius low-wing monoplane, fitted with a Wright Cyclone 780 h.p. engine. He and Mrs Lindbergh have been in the air since July, making a survey of the North Atlantic air-route for Pan-American Airways, who plan to start an Atlantic air service in 1935. It has taken them to Greenland, Iceland, the Shetlands, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, where they were feted by the Soviet Government, and England. Uncertainty has marked their movements. They were expected at one place—they arrived elsewhere. Once they were reported to have been killed in Greenland, but they turned up safely. Mrs Lindbergh acts as co-pilot, navigator and wireless-operator. Colonel Lindbergh recently accepted an advisory appointment to the League of Nations.

Mr J. A. Mollison, flying a Dr Havilland Puss Moth, The Heart’s Content, left Thies, French West Africa, at 12.50 a.m. on February 9, 1933, and reached Port Natal. Brazil, a distance of 2000 miles, in 17hr 70min. His machine was fitted with a 130 h.p. Gipsy Major engine. He thus became the first person to fly from England to South America, the first person to fly solo across the South Atlantic from east to west, and made record time for a South Atlantic crossing.]