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First away were Jim and Amy (Johnson) Mollison, 12-to-1 favorites in their De Havilland Comet. Two minutes later Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn took off in their big Boeing, just as an orange-red sun edged over the horizon. One by one the rest took the air and headed south. Last off, 16 minutes after the Mollisons, was Capt. T. Neville Stack, carrying a complete motion picture of the start...
...evening after Wiley Post's homecoming, Floyd Bennett Field was thronged again. A Sunday crowd was there to see Britain's favorite flyers, brawny Capt. James Allan Mollison and his nervy wife, Amy Johnson Mollison. end a nonstop flight from Wales. Theirs was a fantastic venture. They intended to rest a few days in New York, then take off for Bagdad in one jump for a distance record of 6,000 mi. Then they would hop home to London, cash in enough on publicity to retire for life...
Rescuers found Amy Mollison sitting in the mud beside the total wreck of the Seafarer, cradling her half-conscious husband's bleeding head in her lap. It took hospital surgeons an hour to stitch the pair's gashes, but they had escaped serious injury. Said he: "I was so tired I couldn't tell where I was putting her." Cried she: "He couldn't see! He couldn...
Capt. James A. Mollison, the Scotsman who flew the North Atlantic "uphill" (east-to-west) last year, flew from Lympne to Brazil in 3 days...
Meanwhile Lady Bailey, seasoned pilot, wife of Sir Abe Bailey, diamond tycoon, was missing in the Sahara. She had been trying to break Amy Johnson Mollison's record of 4 days 7 hr. from London to Cape Town. French army planes found her the fifth day, in desolate country southeast of Gao. She was suffering from thirst, exhaustion, influenza...