Dublin, July 21 'The little patched-up U.S$900, nine-year-old plane which recently carried Mr. Douglas Corrigan, the American aviator, from New York to Ireland, was on high' seas today in the United States Maritime Commission's steamer Lehigh steaming for New York, The plane was placed under guard to prevent souvenir seekers from damaging the "crate," which has been nicknamed "Corrigan's Clipper."
Mr. Corrigan, however, has booked passage in the s, Manhattan which sails from Queenstown on July 30 and will arrive in New York August 5.
Reports from the United States current here indicated that the plane would be placed on exhibition at the Smithsonian Institute in Woshington where Col, Charles A. Lind-borgh's "Spirit of St. Louis" has' been viewed by thousands—United ress, There was every reason to anticipate that a regular British trans-Atlantic service would be operating in 1999, when new boats would be completed, declared Captain H. H. Balfour, Under-Secretary of State for Air, in outlining in the House of Commons yesterday the Government's test programme for the next three "months.
'The programme, he added, had begun with the departure' of the Mercury, which, Captain Balfour asserted, would return via the Azores.
The frst Albatross landplane and a new Empire flying-boat might attempt a double crossing of the Atlantic in September, and there would be a further fight by three different-types of aircraft in October.
Reuter.
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