AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 19796, 21 February 1928, Page 4

AVIATION

LONDON TO PARIS

A SPEED RECORD,

(British Official News.) Press Association —Bj Wireless —Copyrlgn*

RUGBY, February 18. All commercial air speed records for a flight'between London and Paris were broken yesterday, when a HandleyPago Jupiter air liner bn the Imperial Airways Silver Wing service covered 230 miles from London to the French capital in 80min AIR FORCE TRAINING FLIGHTS ACROSS AFRICA. RUGBY, February 18. A flight across Africa, which has now become an annual exercise in the normal training of tho Royal Air Force, will begin on March 1, when four Fairey Napier 3F biplanes will set out from Cairo to the Cape and back. They will travel in formation and to time-table. The Fairey 3F is of the so-called general purpose type, and can bo converted from a seaplane to a land ’plane in under an hour. It is equipped with the well-known Napier Lion engine. MR BERT HINKLER LEFT FOR BATAVIA. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. SINGAPORE, February 20. Mr Hinkler departed this morning for Batavia. All going woll, Mr Hinkler hopes to reach Darwin on Wednesday, sixteen days after leaving Croydon. ARRIVAL AT WELTEVREDEN, WELTEVREDEN, February 20. (Received February 21, at 1.30 a m.) Hinkler arrived this afternoon.