FLIGHT TO ROME
AMERICAN AIRMEN’S CLOSE CALL United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright DUBLIN, May 22. The airmen, Captain Pond and Flight-Lieutenant Sabelli, on a flight from New York to Rome, with the repaired cylinder of their ’plane’s engine, working 15 revolutions below normal, and with only sufficient petrol to reach Dublin, landed at Baldonnel. The airmen had a bad runaway, which they were forced to extend by levelling several turf walls to get off, and after scraping a fence and crashing through a hedge they landed.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19807, 24 May 1934, Page 5
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86FLIGHT TO ROME Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19807, 24 May 1934, Page 5
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