AIR FLYING.
[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. AEROPLANE CRASH. JEPr V 25. A British aeroplane crashed a Gaza. Pilot Flying Officer R. D. V Howard and the wireless operator Tur vov were killed.
POPULAR FLIER. PARIS, Alay 25
Captain Lindbergh has received ten thousand letters and four thousand telegrams of congratulations. Tailors arc offering to clothe him free- for his lifetime. Similar offers are cooping from hatters and bootmakers, while speculative builders are urging hiip to live in a house provided and furnished free by them. Manufacturers arc everywhere clamouring to enlist his support for their products. He is beiub lunched, dined, interviewed and presented with cups and medals, while autograph hunters are besieging him. He has signed thousands of cards shaken ten thousand ham\ and has kissed and been kissed , hv hundreds of children. Me thus far has borne the strain calmly hut there is eyidenee that his nerves aro near breaking point.
NON-STOP RECORD. FRENCHMEN WILL GO TO RECOVER IT. PARIS. May 25. France does not intend that the long distance non-stop record shall remain with Captain Lindbergh. Two French machines are ready to start at (lawn on Thursday, both tor Japan, via Siberia.
The intention is to fly as far as possible at one hound, and then to take off for the second stage.
The first plane is a Brequet machine, fitted with a six hundred horse power Hispanosuiza engine. It will he piloted by C'oste and Rignot, who were the world’s non-stop record holders before Captain Lindbergh. The other machine will he piloted by De Marmier and Bares, who both hold splendid long distance records. Captain Lindbergh intends to hand over the £1,250 gift to him from Madame Murthe as the foundation of a fund for the relief rf the children of the French airmen killed while flying'
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1927, Page 2
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