AIR FLYING.
[ Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]
THE AIRMAN LONDON. June 3. Lindbergh escorted by R.A.F. planes left Kinley at 6.21, and arrived at Le Buurget at 10.1, despite a fog.
ANOTHER ATLANTIC FLIGHT. NEW YORK. June 3. The airman. Clarence Chamberlain, accompanied by Charles Levine, an official of ilie firm who manufactured the Bellauea monoplane, Columbia, hopped off at 6.05 o’clock, daylight time, on Saturday morning, on a flight, across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe. They have no specified destination in Europe, hut it is believed their destination will he Berlin. They left from the same runway at Roosevelt Field as was used by Captain Lindbergh. BERLIN, June 1. There is intense interest here in the Chamberlain trans-Atlantic flight. Lufthansa commercial pilots will escort him from the Belgian coast to the Tempelhorf aerodrome, where, the police are determined there will be no repetition of the scenes when Lindbergh landed ai Le Eourget and at Croydon.
The police are permitting the public to congregate only in the fields adjoining the aerodrome.
IN THE AIR. . PARIS, June 4. The French airmen, Caste and Riggot. have started on their flight to Japan, across Siberia. ROUND THE WORLD FLIGHT. NEW YORK. June 3. It "is proposed next month to start around the world in fifteen days’ flight. The attempt will he made by Linton Wells, holder of the round-the-world record of twenty-eight days and fourteen hours. The Lieutenant made one of the Army’s world fliers ot 1925. NEW YORK, June 2.
Northern exploration has been resumed by America with the departure from Boston of Donald MacMillan for Labrador, where he will spend several months in scientific study.
His plan is to erect a permanent observatory in the Arctic region. e George Putnam, the well-known publisher, is scheduled to leave shortly on a similar expedition to Baffin Island, north of Canada.
PARIS, June 3
Two French pilots flew around France, a distance of two thousand two hundred miles, in seventeen hours.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 June 1927, Page 2
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