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New York, July 18.
"James Corrigan, an almost unknown pilot, is flying over the Atlentie Ocean in an announced attempt to renew the solo flight accomplished by Col Charles Lind-borgh ten years ago" such was the surprising news which greeted New Yorkers this morning.
James Corrigan, whose name appeared for the first time in the news. only last week, when he executed a non stop solo flight from New York to California in a 1929 model plane and with only rudimentary navigation implements, had solicited some weeks ago a permit from the American and British authorities for a transatlantic flight. His request was, however, rejected, as both American and British Aeronautic commissions estimated that Corrigan's machine did not possess sufficient qualities to permit the pilot to cross the Ocean with & reasonable margin of security.
"Going to California"
Tonight, James Corrigan arrived at Floyd Bennett Airfield and ordered his machine to be prepared for a long flight. He was to renew his non-stop trip to California, he announced, At dawn—at 418 a.m. exactly—he took off but, after circling several times around the airfield, he headed straight.
East.
Corrigan's machine has not been sighted since and this fact confirms the belief that he is attempting a sensational flight to Europe.
His plane carries sufficient oil and gas to permit him to achieve this performance.—Havas.
Airport officials were dumbfounded when Mr. Corrigan nonchalantly stepped from his ship and told them ae was from New York. They refused to believe him until they looked at the markings on his plane. He was from New York, The young aviator appeared none he worse for his solitary hope across the ocean in which he had only his own judgment to guide him.
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