AVIATION.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20169, 23 February 1931, Page 11

AVIATION.

WOHUJ yotlß CONCLUDED .MB9 VICTOR BRIfCE'S Achievement. (British t orjiciML mssutsa.) ' BUGBY, February 2fr. lonnn V^ dt ° r BrUce conceded hei 19,000 miles' world flight to-day, when 8e arrived, at Croydon, from Lympno. jNo single part of her Blackburn. Bluewas renewed during the 1 fiiftl acco * din e Mrs .Bruce an ' ofthh . welcome on behalf of I tho Air Council, ■Mr P. Mon- ' safd e «, resi^ent of the Council) i said the most striking feature of tho accomphshment was its perfect efflci'Srt* t:kßt Mrs Bruce had onlv ti tl P rivate Plot's license w«, r 0 ! 1^ 0 " 8 bof ore starting, and ' date nf U t» 2"® t x P erienc « UP to the S . be * a<J Parture was only about immSth - aid this must have ai important bearing upon the development • sssMsv&Wiaa i'T 6 , 4 ? 763 - escorted by aeroplanes p l loted by Miss Amy Johnson, Miss Winifred Spooner, and Miss Delphipe Reynolds, who is planning a fligns <rrAafi!f ?^ rs ® ruce was warmly Ail h ushand and ten-year-She climbed out of , the -coekpit.. Bhfc wore two strange decor°n°xif whieh iß , the highest Japanese aviation previously fhToW l°. rei «?® r * The o tier was » G . overslor of Hanoi, Chinese id the n!« i 1 , e possession of a million elephants and a white umbrella. Mrs • *£2® < w * B w ««P»g a Hong-Kong iumper, a Shanghai dkirf, Vancouver shoes, and hand-parted lingerie, tho gift of Chinese. ladies at Amoy. . 'What impressed mo throughout my jqurney Mras that. it was always fuil moon, owing to a daily flight of about five hundred miles;" sho remarked. FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA. (PKiiiiJ - psxss AsaociAfiojt—by electbio v- T«ioiop«H—cofTaio«T.) * • PABIS, February 20. Ta« Cambridge. Undergraduate, Alt Pairbairn, has left Lyons tat Nice, in continuation of his flight to Australia. ATTEMPT ABANDONED. t . r » * 4 * 1 * v *• * teaman orjiozAii , wirilbsbj ; 1 BTJGfIV, February 20. Rose has abandoned his attempt Jo Establish a record Mlo flight Mm England to Cape Towit. W ? 8 likely to be delayed, a week at repairing the undercarriage ,of peeked when -lading after a flight frpm Bulawayo Bose was not injures; r * 4 ' * TO BE SOLD, / V , TQKIO, February SO. t \Lieut°*? aso | - i Harold « Bt'omldy'a aeroAerodrome