Here is the second part of the article.

Unfortunately, the tonal variation on the original scan is so wide that it is difficult to achieve equal legibility across the whole piece. Again, the attachment may be easier to read than the embedded image.

The attached image is the title photograph from an article on the Atlantic Ferry published in New Mexico in late August 1941. I have expanded the caption to make it legible, as the quality of the original scanning is not great.

As I recall, New Mexico was where a ferry pilot school was located, so presumably there was public interest in the subject locally.

I’ve included the image as an attachment in case that should be a bit clearer.

The image posted here is more of a curiosity, perhaps, but it may just spark a little interest. It has two panels.

The panel on the left is quite small and shows two adjacent articles from a British newspaper in late-October 1941.  One article concerns the activities of a Coastal Command Liberator and the other is a review of a variety show.

The right-hand panel of the posted image shows the two articles in question. They have been reproduced larger and have been laid out differently – the easier to be read, I hope.

The Liberator article may be of more interest but it is the other one that caught my attention.

It is the review of a variety show that was entitled, “Atlantic Ferry-Go-Round”.  Who would have thought?

Oh, I do wish the EDIT button would be reinstated – “stick image’ should read ‘stock image’.

The press conference seems to have been intended to correct the nature of previous (and, presumably, inaccurate) articles on the ferrying of bombers across the Atlantic. Incidentally, the piece came from an American newspaper. I’m not sure if the press conference was reported elsewhere but one would have thought so.

Another newspaper report on the in-flight refuelling trials in 1948

A quickie on the airport codes.

‘UL’ is a shortened version of  ‘YUL’, the international code for Montreal – Dorval. I should have realised this sooner, having typed ‘YUL’ more than a few times  earlier this year when working out the itinerary of a trip.

Even though I once experienced an unscheduled stop in Gander many, many years ago, I didn’t know that ‘YQX’ is its airport code. ‘YQX’ was shortened to ‘QX’ in the document posted by Freecell49.

Presumably, this was the practice adopted back in the days of the RFS.