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...airplanes become, the further they can fly and the heavier the weather they can endure, the more obviously necessary to them becomes Radio. It was not insignificant that the first plane to cross the Atlantic westward on a nonstop flight from one airport to another, found its way through Newfoundland fogs and magnetic disturbances almost entirely by radio. The Bremen, only plane preceding the Southern Cross, had no radio and was lucky to strike land where it did at Greenley Island...
...that had swallowed Nungesser and CoU; Hamilton and the Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim; that nearly claimed von Huenefeld and the Bremen pilots. Now their own fuel was running low. No chance of making New York nonstop, or even U. S. soil. They must be somewhere near Harbor Grace Newfoundland, but how see the airport through such a fog? Then came a rift. The plane dived through it to a perfect landing at Harbor Grace. Thus last week after 31 trying hours, the Fokker Southern Cross, already famed for its flight from California to Australia (TIME June 18 1928) from Australia...
Next day the Southern Cross flew on to New York and a rowdy reception at Roosevelt Field, Long Island. Manhattan claimed the quartet as its heroes, ignored the suggestion of failure in the enforced stop in Newfoundland; saw only the glory in their achievement. From Washington hurried British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay to extend the congratulations of his government...
Died. Sir William Lamond Allardyce, 68, onetime Governor of the Falkland Islands (1904-14), of the Bahamas (1915-20), of Tasmania (1920-22), of Newfoundland (1922-28); after lingering illness; at London...
...Brice Goldsborough, expert of Pioneer Instrument Co., was navigator on Mrs. Frances Grayson's amphibian Dawn which was lost between New York and Newfoundland at the start of a trans-Atlantic flight (TIME...