TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR MAILS
FIRST FLIGHT BEGUN YANKEE CLIPPER SETS OUT (By Telegraph—Prcsa Association—Copyright) Received May 21, 11.50 p.m. NEW YORK, May 21. The Pan-American Airways Yankee Clipper left for Europe, carrying 1600 lb. of letters on the first regular trans-Atlantic mail flight. There was little ceremony as the airship, carrying a crew of 17, left for the Azores, where it landed in 13 hours 21 minutes. A message from the Azores stated that the flying-boat, which landed on Sunday, completing the first leg of the first scheduled commercial flight across the Atlantic, started the trip on the twelfth anniversary of Colonel Lindbergh's flight to Paris.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 8
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