AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 22142, 24 September 1935, Page 9

AVIATION

CAMPBELL-BLACK'S FLIGHT ABSENCE OF NEWS CAUSING ANXIETY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 23. The absence of reports from CampbellBlack since he passed over Wadi Haifa is causing anxiety, as the petrol supply thereafter would have lasted only 11 hours. ' [Mr Campbell-Black and his co-pilot, Mr M'Arthur, left Hatfield for a “ boomerang ” flight to Capo Town.] SAVED BY PARACHUTES LANDED ON WEST BANK OF THE NILE. LONDON, September 23.. (Received September 24, at 10 a.m.) A Khartum message says two strangers riding camels into Kabushia, 130 miles north of here, proved to be Campbell-Black and M'Arthur. Their machine went out of control yesterday morning. They parachuted and landed on the west bank of the Nile unhurt. The machine caught fire and was destroyed. Campbell-Black’s wife dramatically heard the news in a West End cinema, a special slide being flashed on the screen. LIFE SAVED BY WIFE. LONDON, September 23. (Received September 24, at 1.30 p.m.) Campbell-Black would be dead but for his wife’s intervention before the flight. She said that her husband never used a parachute, but just before his departure she persuaded him to sacrifice his overcoat for a parachute. DUKE OF KENT'S PLANE WINS HATFIELD TO CARDIFF AIR RACE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 21. The Duke of Kent’s aeroplane, the Percival New Gull, won the air race from Hatfield to Cardiff at an average speed of 220 miles an hour. Captain E. W. Percival was again pilot. SCOTT'S AUSTRALIAN FLIGHT 1 ™ IT INTERNATIONAL MEDAL AWARDED. BELGRADE, September 23. (Received September 24, at 11 a.m.) The Congress of the International Aeronautical Federation awarded Mr C. W. A. Scott its grand medal for his Australian flight, as the best performance of the year. The congress proposes to arrange a round-the-world air race. NEW FLYING BOATS FOR IMPERIAL AIRWAYS. LONDON, September 23. (Received September 24, at 10 a.m.) Imperial Airways is ordering a fleet of new flying boats, each of 17 J tons, with a 1,500 miles range and a speed of nearly 200 miles an hour, for the main Empire routes. - SIXTEEN ORDERED. LONDON, September 23. (Received September 24, at 1.5 p.m.) Imperial Airways’ new flying boats, which are high-wing monoplanes with a. double deck and cabins, are 30 per cent, larger and 50 to 60 per cent, faster than the biggest existing Empire plane. The first is expected in the middle of 1936. It is understood that 16 have been ordered.