AIR FLYING.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1927, Page 2

AIR FLYING.

[ Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

PLANE REACHES FRANCE. NEW YORK, May 21. The French cable company here announces tire receipt of word that Lindbergh’s plane passed over Rnyeux, in France at eight o’clock on Saturday evening. NEW YORK, May 21. At 11.15 a.ni. a Paris message arrived here reporting that Captain Lindbergh has arrived in France, after flying the Atlantic from the United States. NEW YORK, .May 21. A St. Louis message states that Captain Lindbergh cherishes a plan to he the first man to fly from the United States to Australia. According to Mr Harry Knight, one of his backers he will first attempt to break the endurance record. Then he will undertake a flight to Australia in two hops—one from the United States to the Hawaii Islands, and thence to the eastern coast of Australia, a little to the north of Sydney.

DE PINEDO SETS OUT. NEW YORK. May 21

Telegrams from Trepassy, in Newfoundland, report that de Pinedo has planned to depart at sunset oil a sixteen hundred mile flight over the Atlantic to the Azores Islands. T)e Pinedo expects that most of fourteen hours will be required for his flight in the darkness. It is reported that several pounds weight of first class mail, at the charge of sixty cents per letter, has heen placed aboard de Pinedo’s plane to be mailed to Europe. The town of Trepassy is gaily decorated with a medley of hunting, and flags are flying from each fisherman’s cottage in honor of the visit of the Italian airmail.