14 JUNE 1957, Page 15

SIR,—To Mr. Scroggie, to the shades of Alcock and Brown

et al., and to all the others who wrote, with good-natured glee, to point it out, I owe a rueful apology for dozing heavily during The Spirit of St. Louis. I should, of course, have said not 'flight,' but 'West/East solo flight:—Yours faithfully,