ATLANTIC FEEY PILOTS MADE CROSSING IN 4-3/4 HOURS - Flight Lieutenant Graham, RAF of Glasgow, and Captain Naz, flying in the Transport Command Atlantic Ferry Service, brought two Canadian-built Mosquitos from Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick - 2184 statute miles by the Great Circle Course - within one minute of each other in the remarkable time of five hour, thirty-six minutes respectively, at an average ground speed of miles per hour. The coast-to-coast crossing of both was just under four and three-quarter hours. The two flights were practically identical under similar condi
ATLANTIC FEEY PILOTS MADE CROSSING IN 4-3/4 HOURS - Flight Lieutenant Graham, RAF of Glasgow, and Captain Naz, flying in the Transport Command Atlantic Ferry Service, brought two Canadian-built Mosquitos from Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick - 2184 statute miles by the Great Circle Course - within one minute of each other in the remarkable time of five hour, thirty-six minutes respectively, at an average ground speed of miles per hour. The coast-to-coast crossing of both was just under four and three-quarter hours. The two flights were practically identical under similar conditions both following a flight plan of 21,000 feet altitude to get the benefit of ice-free conditions, fine weather and a tail wind practically all the way varying between fifty and seventy knots. Both Flight Lieutenant Graham and Captain Naz have ferried every type of bomber and flying boat built in North America across the North, Middle and South Atlantic routes. Captain Naz, who was born in Mauritius and was formerly an electrical engineer at Welwyn Garden City, Herts, learned to fly under the De Havilland organisation and for the first two-and- a-half years of the war was an Air Transport Auxiliary pilot. He is a skilled yachtsman and between transocean flights takes a conspicuous part in the racing contests of the Royal St. Lawrence Club on Lake , near Montreal. Picture issued 1945 shows - Flight Lieutenant Graham, RAF., of Glasgow and Captain Naz, Royal Air Force
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