The Long Range Dragon

• Published in: Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Emerald 1933
• Subjects: Bridgeport; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb029706; https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/eb029706/full/xml; https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/eb029706/full/html

MR. AND MRS. MOLLISON left Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, Wales, at 12.0 noon (B.S.T.) on Saturday, July 22, in their modified D.H.84 Dragon, “Seafarer,” with two 130 h.p. Gipsy Major engines. They successfully traversed the North Atlantic, but crashed owing to the aeroplane overrunning the aerodrome and rosing over on marshy ground, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, 57 miles N.E. of New York, at 3.15 a.m. (B.S.T.) on Monday, July 24. This unfortunate ending to the flight does not detract from the merit of Messrs. De Havilland's performance in converting a standard aeroplane of such small size into a long‐range machine. The details of the modifications carried out are here described.