Leste

Leste: (pronounced Lestey): A hot, dry, southerly wind in Madeira and Northern Africa in front of an advancing depression.

Albert Francis Hegenberger and Lester Maitland
Fokker F.VII
From California to Hawaii, the longest open sea flight up to that date, in the "Bird of Paradise".

They took off from Lester's Field, near St. Johns, Newfoundland on June 14,1919. The Vimy landed June 15,1919 at Clifden in Ireland. The time for the crossing was sixteen hours, and twenty seven minutes.

See also: Cross, Aircraft, Flight, Pilot, Range