GREAT GERMAN FLYING-BOAT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20083, 12 November 1930, Page 11

GREAT GERMAN FLYING-BOAT.

ARRIVAL AT CALSHOT.

SOME BRITISH CRITICS. (OTHTED PRESS ASSOCIATION —B* ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COI'TKIOnT.) LONDON, November 10. The Dornier Do.X made a successful flight to Calshot, Southampton Water, where she alighted perfectly this afternoon. Royal Air Force lighters went alongside immediately the vessel came to a standstill. The flight was delayed for half an hour owing to tho necessity of returning to Schellingwoude to minor adjustments, a small defect having revealed itself soon after the vessel left the water. The giant llying-boat's journey from Amsterdam was uneventful. It occupied less than five hours. She was welcomed by a swarm of aeroplanes as she approached the Isle of Wight, and was escorted to the base, where German officials met the passengers, who includ ed three women, Lady Drummond Ilay, Mrt, Dornier, and tho wife of the head of the German Aircraft Company. Captain Christiansen, Commander of the Dornier, won distinction in the war time, a3 an aviator and naval officer. The flying-boat excited the greatest interest. Major C. C. Turner, in the "Daily Telegraph," describes the landing at Calshot as even smoother and more graceful than that of small craft. Critics, however, distruct the small reservo power of tho machine, and consider that the load per unit of wing area and per unit of power, is greater than is regarded wise according to British standards. FLIGHT FROM NEW YORK TO PANAMA. AIRMAN : MEETS STORMS. (Received November 11th, 8.30 p.m.) BALBOA, November 10. Captain Roy Ammel completed a nonstop flight from New York to Panama, successfully landing at the France field at 2.45 p.m., covering the distance in 24 hours 35 minutes, despite Btorms and head winds over most of the journey. Captain Ammel carried 703 gallons of petrol in his low-winged monoplane.