Word: tradewinds
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Lieut. William S. MacLaren and Widow Beryl Hart, 27, flying the Bellanca seaplane Tradewind, reached Bermuda fortnight ago in their attempted "payload" flight from New York to Paris. They took off again for the Azores, flew into a high wind over heavy seas, were not again seen or heard from. A few optimists clung to the ephemeral hope that the flyers were alive on one of the outlying Azores. But cold reason labelled the Tradewind the seventeenth transatlantic plane to be lost since 1927; the pilots the 30th and 31st; Mrs. Hart the fourth woman...
Guessers. In the Bellanca seaplane Tradewind, Lieut. William S. MacLaren, former U. S. N. pilot, and his pupil Widow Beryl Hart, 27, transport pilot, took off from New York last week for Bermuda, Azores, Paris. Instead of a radio the plane carried a small cargo of advertised foodstuffs for "the first payload flight to Europe." In "rocking" the plane off the still water the flyers knocked to the floor their sextant - only navigating instrument aboard - but instead of turning back they elected to guess their course. Navigator MacLaren guessed right at first, picked up two steamers about halfway; guessed wrong...
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