The Archive · 1936

British Flier Planning Ambitious Flights

London, Sept. 17.

ambitious "programme, in which he will attempt several new conquests in the air, was detailed by Mr. J. A. Mollison, the British aviator, in an interview.

The programme, he said, would begin a month from now, when he would try to fly from New York to Croydon in seventeen hours.

He would then try to: beat any new record which may be made in the great London-Johannesburg alr race, in which Mr, Schlesinger, a South African millionaire, is offering Prizes aggregating £10,000. This race is restricted to British planes.

The next flight on his programme would be a dash round the world at the Equator. He would be making all, these flights entirely alone.

Mr, Mollison is using a new lowwing' American monoplane which, it fs stated, is capable of attaining a speed of 270 miles an hour. It has range of 4,000 miles—Reuter,

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