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Jim Mollison Atlantic Ocean flight....
Jim Mollison Atlantic Ocean flight....
Item # 583000
August 19, 1932
THE OMAHA BEE-NEWS, Omaha, Nebraska, August 19, 1932
* Aviator Jim Mollison
* Airplane - aviation
* 1st solo Atlantic flight (W to E)
This 26 page newspaper has a six column headline on the front page: "Mollison Spans Atlantic in Tiny Plane" with subheads. More on page 9 with photo of the airplane. Tells of the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean from West to East.
Other news of the day. Minor spine wear, otherwise in good condition.
wikipedia notes: James Allan ("Jim") Mollison (19 April 1905 - 30 October 1959) was a famous Scottish pioneer aviator who set many records during the rapid development of aviation in the 1930s.
On 18 August 1932 Mollison became the first pilot to perform an East-to-West solo trans-Atlantic flight from Portmarnock, Dublin, Ireland to Pennfield, New Brunswick, Canada. In February 1933 Mollison flew from England to Brazil in three days 13 hours, using Africa as a stop-over continent, a record time and the first solo crossing. By then, he and his wife began to plan a record breaking flight across the world. On 22 July 1933, they took off from Wales, but their plane could not make it to Connecticut in the United States, crashing before landing there. He and his wife were injured, and the plane broken apart by souvenir seekers.
Category: The 20th Century
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