CONQUEST OF THE AIR.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19157, 14 November 1927, Page 9

CONQUEST OF THE AIR.

CAPTAIN GILES'S FLIGHT.

A POSTPONEMENT. (bt cabli—raxss association—coptsiqht.) (AtTSTBALIAX AND N.Z. CABLX ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 13th, 5.5 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, November 12. Captain Giles announced the postponement of his flight until more favourable conditions obtain, when the United States Weather Bureau warned him that his attempt to fly to Hawaii would be suicidal. The Bureau suggested at least two davs' delav.

[Captain Giles plans to flv to New Zealand.]

FLYING BOATS AT BUSHIRE

(AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. AND SUN CABLE.) (Received November 13th, 5.5 p.m.)

DELHI, November 12. The Southampton flying boats have arrived at Bushire.

[Four British flying boats are on their way from Britain to Australia.]

ATLANTIC FLYERS WELCOMED,

(AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

NEW YORK, November 11. The Atlantic flyers, Miss Ruth Elder and Captain George Haldeman, arrived ab -.-d the Aquitania. They were met by the city tug and escorted to the City Hall, where they were presented with a scroll by the Mayor before a large crowd of weleomers. AIRMEN INJURED.

(AUSTRALIAN A.VD N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

PARIS, November 11. A message from Chaumont says that the airmen Medaets and Verhaegen. who left Courtrai in the 'plane Reine Elisabeth this morning, intending to attempt a non-stop flight to Leopoldville, in the Belgian Congo, crashed at Ferte Sur Aubc. Botli were injured. FLIGHT ROUND AFRICA.

(BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) . RUGBY, November 11. Lady Cobham will accompany Sir Alan Cobham on his flight of 20,000 miles round Africa, which he is beginning nest Thursday from Rochester. She is going as a member of the crew of six, which the flying-boat Singapore will carry, and, in addition to assisting her husband in keeping detailed records of the flight, she will supervise the cooking for the crew.