LONG-DISTANCE FLIGHTS
GATTY AND POST TAKE-OFF. HARBOUR GRACE, June 23. Messrs Post and Gatty hopped off for Berlin at 4.57 p.m. to-day. The take-off was one of the most hasty in the history of trans-oceanic flights. No sooner had the aviators landed from New York than they ate a hasty meal, rushed back to the field to supervise re-fuelling, inspected the ’plane, warmed her up, and hopped off. They were even too busy to pose for photographers. and evidently gave little or no thought to the weather. NO NEWS FROM FLYERS. Received June 24, 8 p.m, NEW YORK, Juno 23. Calculations placed the airmen Post and Gatty at 8.30 p.m. approximately half-way between the American and European continents. Three trans-At-lantic steamships on Tuesday night had not reported news from the flyers. MRS NICHOLS’ MISHAP. TWO VERTEBRAE CRACKED. ST. JOHN (N. 8. June 23. X-rav pictures revealed to-day that two of the vertebrae of Airs Ruth Nichols’ spine are cracked. While painful it is not serious, there being no dislocation. The fractures will mend quickly.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 148, 25 June 1931, Page 7
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