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Jim Mollison Atlantic Ocean flight....
Jim Mollison Atlantic Ocean flight....
Item # 590210
August 19, 1932
THE SCRANTON TIMES, Scranton, Pennsylvania, August 19, 1932
* Aviator Jim Mollison
* Airplane - aviation
* 1st solo Atlantic flight (West to East)
This 24 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "FLIER LANDS AFTER OCEAN HOP" with subheads that include: "Mollison Makes First Westward Solo Flight Across North Atlantic" and more. 1st report coverage on the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean from West to East. This is considered harder to do because your flying against the jet stream.
Other news of the day. Light browning, a little margin wear, otherwise good.
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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