The Archive · 1928

AMERICAN FLIGHT TO "SWEDEN

Departure of Greater Rockford from Cochrane Cochrane, Out, Aug. 18,°

Bert Hassel.and Parker Cramer, who landed here on the plane "Greater Rockford" on the 16th to refuel, left at about two o'clock this afternoon for Greenland.

The two airmen are attempting to fly across the Atlantic from Rockford, Ill, to Sweden in three stops, namely, Cochrane, in Ontario, Greenland and Reyjavik, in Iceland. Their machine is equiped with wireless, a collapsible boat and a rifle—Reuter, Anxiety Felt i Ottawa, Aug.19.

There is no news of Bert Hassel and Parker Cramer, who left Cochrane on board the "Greater Rockford yesterday on the second lap of their trans-Atlantic Might to Sweden vid Cochrane, Greenland and Reyjavik, in Iceland,—They were due to reach Greenland at daylight

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