AERIAL NAVIGATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 December 1927, Page 5

AERIAL NAVIGATION.

NON-STOP FLIGHT. WASHINGTON TO MEXICO. Press Association-Electric Telesraph-Copyright MEXICO CITY, Wednesday, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, the distinguished young American airman, who last summer executed the only solus flight across the Atlantic, has flown from Washington to Merico City. Flying The Spirit of St. Louis, the machine in which he crossed the Atlantic, he left Washington on the morning of Tuesday and arrived in Mexico City at 2.59 p.m. on Wednesday. Lindbergh arrived at Valbuena flying field after a non-stop flight lasting 27 hours 13 minutes. President Calles and Ambassador Morrow awaited him at the field, as did an enthusiastic crowd of about 20,000. The gathering would have been even larger, but Lindbergh was considerably overdue, and many people had gone homeward discouraged and anxious, fearing a mishap. Word of the American’s arrival reached the field just as the Mexican ’planes were preparing to commence a search for him. His reception was so enthusiastic that accidents were narrowly averted. The delay in arrival, which created anxiety, was caused by Lindbergh losing his direction after passing Tampico and having to make a long detour. (The distance between Washington and Mexico is over 2000 miles in a bee-line. The flight would be considerably longer.)