AIR FLYING.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1920, Page 1

AIR FLYING.

.15y Electric Telegraph—Cop., tght.)

MATTHEWS CONTINUES HIS FLY. SYDNEY, Jan. 27.

Aviator Matthews, in a cable from, Bagdad,, dated January 24th, states he. low frdiii’ Constantinople to Aleppo on the 14tli without a stop, in throe hours, at a. height of ten thousand feet. Two hundred miles of the fiig it '' ‘) s over mountains and ravines of Asia Minor. It was impossible to . iand, there being snow everywhere and muci clouds. A week of rain followed At Aleppo there are no hangars and no Britishers. He made the journey from Aleppo to Bagdad on the 21st in fom hours. This wa s his first spell of fine flying weather. He had an overhaul here, with every assistance Horn the . AF. He is leaving on the 27th on the usual route to India. IDs average speed to date has been 104 miles an hour His aeroplane is a woudeiful machine in bad weather. The crew arc “ 0.K.”

A FRENCH FLY. PARIS, Jan. 26. Threo French military machines have started a pigeon flight to Timbuctoo, across the Sahara Desert, touching at Alcriers, Biscara and Tesnou. The project is considered militarily important General Nivello follows when tho trail is blazed.