Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-06-23 | Page 9 | Transatlantic Flights Planned

TRANSATLANTIC JI PlAt Nm TORONTO June 22 AP AP Plana Plans for tor three airplane flights from Canada Canada Canada Can Can- ada to Europe next month month- were disclosed ed today b by Maj Major r General J J. J II Il MacBrien president of ot the Aviation league of Ca Canada 1 da A ANew New Yo York k filer fler Is planning a aso aso so 10 o flight from New York to Scotland Scot Scot- land lani by byway away way of of ot Ottawa Labrador Greenland and Iceland Three e fliers Ulers among them Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant Ben pen Eielson EI who was pilot for Captain C pt ln Sir George Wilkins on and Antarctic flights will t take of off from Chicago on a a. flight thi through northern Ontario and Que- Que Que Qu Quebec beo bec to Greenland Iceland the Faroe Islands and thence to Bergen Norway Norway Nor Nor- wa way and arid Copenhagen D Denmark nm rk Thence they plan to proceed to Berlin Ber Ber- lin linand and Paris and return by way way of ot London and Scotland along along- the original route Th The third flight Is that proposed by Bert Hassel who plans to fly flyby flyby flyby by the northern ro to from Chicago to Copenhagen General Genera MacBrien l declared that while It Jf has has' been heen demonstrated th that t. t the a airplane Is capable of ot flight across across' the Atlantic its carrying carrying carrying car car- power is limited to crew and fuel and that the northern r uto offers the advantage ot of stopping places where supplies supplies' can bo be maintained main tamed