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...weeks ago, at the ceremonious opening of a $120,000 mission hospital at St. Anthony, on the uppermost tip of Newfoundland, Sir William Allardyce, Governor of Newfoundland and Laborador, acting on instructions from his King, smote Dr. Wilfred Thomason Grenfell on the right shoulder with a sword and bade "the Knight Errant of the North" arise a Knight of the Order of St. Michael and St. George...
First two days. From Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Croydon Airdrome, London, from London to Munich all went well (TIME, Sept...
...Lieutenants Maitland and Hegenberger flew 2,400 miles without seeing land. The greatest over-water distance of the Atlantic flights is the 1,800 miles between Newfoundland and Ireland...
...amazed the crowd at Roosevelt Field and caused his wife to swoon, when he quietly climbed into the Columbia's cockpit beside Chamberlin and was off for somewhere in Europe. Chamberlin followed Captain Lindbergh's general route from Long Island to Newfoundland and thence across the Atlantic...
...Journey. Captain Lindbergh took the shortest route to Paris- the great circle-cutting across Long Island Sound, Cape Cod, Nova Scotia, skirting the coast of Newfoundland. He later told some of his sky adventures to the aeronautically alert New York Times for syndication: "Shortly after leaving Newfoundland, I began to see icebergs. . . . Within an hour it became dark. Then I struck clouds and decided to try to get over them. For a while I succeeded at a height of 10,000 feet. I flew at this height until early morning. The engine was working beautifully and I was not sleepy...