AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 19661, 14 September 1927, Page 9

AVIATION

LOSS OF THE OLD GLCP.Y WRECKAGE REPORTED FOUND Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK. September 12. Tho ‘Daily Mirror,’ of which. Philip Payne is the editor, has received a radio message from the vessel it sent in search of the Old Glory reporting that it found wreckage of an aeroplane about (>SO miles olf Newfoundland. Other details are not yet available. [A cablegram from New York on September (I stated that Philip Payne, a New York pressman, leaped aboard tho Old Glory as it was leaving, and was being carried as a pascngcr.J MR LEVINE'S PLANS FLIGHT TO EAR EAST. LONDON, September 12. Determined to win the record for a non-stop flight, Mr Levine is planning to leave on Thursday for the bar East. WRECKAGE FOUND IN CORNWALL LONDON, September 12. An aeroplane’s rudder and part of a wing were washed ashore at Newquay, Cornwall. It has not yet been identified. ANOTHER ATLANTIC ATTEMPT START FROM IRELAND. LONDON, September 12. M'lntosli, who will be accompanied by the Irish Free State Air Commander, Fitzmaurico, says _he feels assured that tho aeroplane Princess Xenia has a good chance of crossing the Atlantic from Ireland as soon as the weather moderates. “We shall not be foolhardy,” he said. “It is hard that good lives are thrown away in a good cause, but it is possible to be too sentimental. Our machine can definitely do the range, and everything is properly organised.” TAKING 'PLANE HOME A NEW ZEALANDER’S PURCHASE. LONDON. September 13. Mr T. Douglas Mill, a New Zealander, has bought an aeroplane to take homo. He will first make a flight to Venice to witness the Schneider Cup race, taking as passenger Captain Isitt, of the New Zealand Air. Force. MID-AIR COLLISION FORTUN ATE ESCAPES. ROME, September 12. Two aviators bad a miraculous escape at Brescia. Flying in clouds at a height of I,oooft, their machines suddenly collided head on, and iell interlocked to the. aerodrome, where they burst into (lames. Fortunately four mechanics dragged tho aviators clear of the burning and they resolved only minor injuries. FRENCH ’PLANE CRASHES ATTEMPT ON DISTANCE RECORD. PARIS, September 13. (Received September 14, at 10 a.m.) Demarincr and Favrcau were _ attempting a long-distanco record flight to Siberia when they crashed. The men were uninjured, but the plane was wrecked.