SHOT: Plane shot from shift reduces mail by sixteen hours (1928)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Video Roll Title: Mail plane launched from ship reduces Atlantic Time by 16 hours:81ft Aeroplane shot from shif reduces mail by 16 hours Plane shot from ship reduces mail by 16 hours. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Plane shot from ship reduces transatlantic mail time by 16 hours! USA: New York: EXT *** PICTURE QUALITY POOR THROUGHOUT *** Seaplane lowered onto structure by crane Aircraft F -ALQP ready to take off Louis Dermougeot and his radio operator. The pilot Captain Louis Dermougeot (left) and his radio operator on the liner Ile de France Louis Dermougeot Package containing newsreel handed to pilot sitting in plane Shots message (unreadable) Plane in sea (very faint picture) Pilot stepping out from plane Background: Video Roll Title: Mail plane launched from ship reduces Atlantic Time by 16 hours:81ft Aeroplane