AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 19665, 19 September 1927, Page 5

AVIATION

ANOTHER TRANSATLANTIC FAILURE CAPTAIN H'IHTOSH RETURNS i ' POOR VISIBILITY. Press Association— By Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, September 18. The failure of Captain MTntosh will probably end the Atlantic ventures for the present season, because henceforth the Atlantic will be no playground. The plane was forced down, and 50ft from the water visibility was only a few yards. Captain MTntosh turned back at 5 o’clock in the evening, emptying the petrol tanks en route. A GERMAN COMPLAINT PROHIBITION OF PROPAGANDA’ FLIGHTS. LONDON, September 17. The Cologne correspondent of ‘Tbs Times’ says that the German newspapers accuse the Rhineland High Commissioners of violating the air alleviations recently granted to Germany by prohibiting propaganda flights in connection with the aviation meeting at Wiesbaden, also the visit of thirty-six Reichswchr officers. The commission-, ers declare that the allegations concerning the alleviations are a gross misrepresentation. German planes of all descriptions fly over the occupied territory daily, and permission has been, given for the establishment of three new aerodromes. They point out that propaganda flights have been temporarily prohibited owing to the British Army manoeuvres. Reichswchr officers were only permitted in occupied territory on private business. —‘The Tunes.’

PASSENGER PLANE CRASHES SIXI’EOPLE KILLED. ! NEW YORK, Soptcmber 17. A message from Plainfield, New Jersey, states that six persons were killed aild five seriously injured when a Fokker commercial passenger aeroplane crashed to-day. FURTHER DETAILS. ! NEW YORK, September 18. (Received September 19, at 10.20 a.m.) At Newmarket, New Jersey, eight persons ivere killed and four others injured, so seriously that they may die, when a large Fokker piano carrying ten passengers, besides the pilot and mechanic, crashed in an orchard. A commercial company had instituted a new short-trip service, charging one cent per pound for a ten-min-ute ride. Over 100 persons had applied for rides, and the air mail pilot, who was unaccustomed to this type of plane, made five successful trips, but fell on the sixth The dead include the pilot and th mechanic. MR LEVINE’S FLIGHT FAILURE TO TAKE OFF* LONDON, September 18. (Received September 19, at 1.30 a.m.) Mr Levine and Hinchcliffo twice tried to take off from Cranwell for India, but the Miss Columbia sank in the ground, ■which was sodden with, heavy, rains, and had to bo wheeled to the hangar. * LINDBERGH'S BOOK 'A BEST SELLER. NEW YORK, September IS. • (Received September 19, at 10.45 a.m.) 1 Altogether 190,000 copies have been sold to "date of Lindbergh’s book, ‘We/ being the narrative of Iho flight. After writing the volume ho decided 1 that it must he rewritten. He made a hurried trip from the Middle West for this purpose. His royalties aro estimated at Oo.OOOdol, and may reach many times that figure before the active sales end.