NON-STOP FLIGHT.
ACROSS THE NORTH POLE. SOVIET FLIER’S DEPARTURE. MOSCOW TO NEW YORK. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received August 13, 3 p.m.) MOSCOW, August 12. Slgismund Levanevsky, the Soviet air ace, took off at 6.15 p.m. local time on a non-stop flight across the North Pole 1 to Fairbanks, from where ho will continue to Edmonton, Chicago and New York. The machine has four engines. The crew numbers seven.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20271, 13 August 1937, Page 7
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