TRANSPORT: Aviation: First commercial Atlantic flight successfully carried out in record time (1938)

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BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

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First commercial Atlantic flight successfully carried out in record time. Aboard the plane were British?

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SLATE INFORMATION: 'Mercury' is Paramount!

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Foynes:
Gen. view composite plane. Long view crews. CU Wilcoxon photographing crew..(Mercury's pilot Capt. Bennett on right). Top view crew out of plane. Long view plane. Gen. view planes move off.

CU composite plane moving off...IN ROLL 7240

Gen. view talking off.

CU pan taking off...IN ROLL 7240

Gen. view break-away..pan up to mercury...IN ROLL 7240

Semi view pan Mercury...IN ROLL 7240

Mercury G-ADHJ.

Maia G-ADHK.

Aviation; Media; Self-Reference
Background: First commercial Atlantic flight successfully carried out in record time. Aboard the plane were British Paramount News films for showing in America.

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