Travellers from America May End Voyage Here Tramps and travellers of all, sorts snd. conditions, high and low, in hele Journeys about the world, never fall to come. through Shanghai, The chances now are, however, that} travellers of a new sort may be coming here, shortly.
They can be described as aerial world. tourists whose chief occupa tion seems to be in making exten sive experiments with radio equip: ment.
"They are Dr. Richard A. Light, an Ingtruetor in surgery at Yale University, US.A., and Me. Robert, Wilson of New Rochelle, New York, who has just graduated in radio me-chauies from the same university.
The machine they are flying ix Bellanea six-passenger skyrocket monoplane with " Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine and a, controllable piten propeller enabling the seaplane to fake off in a confined space. two-Way Communications During thole Aight from the United states. to Europe. and eastward via Baghdad and Karachi, Mr. Wilson, who Dr. Light describes enthusiast. cally as the best radio amateur in all America, carried out experiments on "Wireless "equipment " carried in their plane. He succeeded in maintaining two-way telegraphic _comtaunteation with a friend in the United "States over a distance of 2,000 miles at working speeds of thirty words per minute.
'They had left Newhaven, Connecticut, USA. on August 90, and tol. lowing' Colonel Lindbergh's rout along the coast of Labrador, flew 10 Greenland, thence to Iceland, "the Faroe Islands and the Orkneys, to Great Britain, "Some time was spent fying around the United Kinsdo and Europe, Holland, Germany, Der mark and Scandinavia being visited. Then the filers erossed" Europe 10 Lake Geneva and commenced thelt Aight eastward.
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