The Archive · 1939

National Class Fight

The conflict which marks this epoch, last night. He will attempt a nonstop flight from Newfoundland to Sweden.

Dinegan arrived here from St. Louis last Sunday with his machine, a monoplane with a 90 horse-power engine able to reach a cruising speed of 175 kilometres an hour.

The airman intends to fill up at St. John and then attempt a dash straight to Sweden, a distance of 3,700 kilometres.

The plane is not equipped with any wireless apparatus.—Havas.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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