DISTANCE FLIERS.

Grey River Argus, 1 March 1927, Page 3

DISTANCE FLIERS.

* TRANS PACIFIC FLIGHT VANCOUVER, Feb. 22. A Vancouver to Sydney, seventyseven hundred miles’ flight, is projected by four British aviators, starting from*here early in June in a Sikorsky seaplane. The party comprises two Australians, one Canadian and one Englishman. Three of the partv, Captain John Clarke, of England, Engineer L. T. Palmer (Canadian Flying Officer), ami Gilbert Jenkins, of Alelbourne, arc hero seeking a civic contribution to the sev-enty-thousand dollar fund, much ol which in already assured, from the cost of the cnterjirisc. Captain F. A. Giles (navigator) is coming later from Adelaide. The airmen plan to forestall a similar flight under preparation by the Americans, starting from San Francisco and San Diego. Their plane would weigh twenty-four thousand pounds and be capable of a speed of a hundred miles an hour for forty hours. Honolulu is the first stage, thence to Fanning Is lang, Fiji, and to Sydney. They expect to reach Sydney in ten days. LONDON, Feb. 23. The fourth air liner for the CairoKarachi service left Croydon for Baghdad, with eight passengers, including five women. WORLD MOTOR TOUR. LONDON, Feb. 22. Ellis, Birtles, ard Knowles, after a delay by sn-pv in mid Europe, arrived at Vienna, a!! well. The trip hitherto has been without incident. They are due at Constantinople at any moment. They] are on the way from London to Sydney by motor car. mi