AIR FLYING.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1927, Page 2

AIR FLYING.

ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

CHAMBERLAIN LANDS IN

GERMANY

[ Vustralian & N.Z. Cable Association.] ißec-ei/ed this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, June 6. Chamberlain landed near Kettbus in Germany, south of Berlin, with his propeller broken. [•‘Sydney Sun’’ Cables.] LONDON, June 6. It is reported from Vancouver that Chamberlain has arrived at. Berlin. THE OCEAN CROSSED. LONDON, Juno 6. There was a big silence after tit# aeroplane Columbia was sighted over Newfoundland. Then came a message stating that it had circled the liner Mauretania.

Four hours later the plane was sighted at Lands End (England). She was then flying so high that her propeller was practically inaudible.

Meanwhile the Lc Bourgot Aerodrome, learning that Chamberlain liad a wireless set oil his plane sent out a message urging him to come down at the first favourable opportunity, as two dangerous storms were coming.

I.e Bonrget Aerodrome has since learned that Chamberlain bad discarded bis wireless, LONDON. June 6. Chamberlain lias been sighted ninetyfive miles from Cologne. Ho is expected to arrive at Berlin at four a.m. The weather lias cleared. Chamberlain will he escorted by a dozen German aeroplanes over the last stage of his flight. BERLIN, June 6. A military escort sent out from Berlin in the direction of Dortmund, joined Chamberlain. >. CHAMBERLAIN LANDS. LONDON, June 6.. After flying the Atlantic Chamberlain landed at Paderborn. He resumed bis flight to Berlin at 9.40 o’clock.

NEW YORK. June 6

Chamberlain and Levine have landed at llelfta, near Eisebaden, in Germany, BEATEN by fog. Paris. .Tune o. Coste ntill Rignot abandoned their flight when 3125 miles front Pans. Fifteen out of their 29J hours’ flying time were spent in log. They landed in a small field near the Ural Forest, in the neighbourhood of Nijui.

ROOK’S FLIGHT. LONDON, June (>

Book, on his flight to Australia, arrived at Aboukir on June 5. He leaves for Cairo on Wednesday.

DISTANCE FLIERS DECORATED BERNE. June 6.

Sir Alan Cobliam and the Marc-hose de Pinedo have been awarded by the International Aeronautics Federation gold medals on account of their 1920 flights.

I)E PINEDO. 110RTA (Azores), June 2. De Pinedo, in an interview here, declared his intention of returning to tfie spot where he was . forced down and he will continue his flight from there. “ We were forced to land," he said, “ owing to strong winds," which reduced speed to one-third and exhausted the petrol supply, although he had had sufficient petrol when lie started to reach the Azores.

“We descended at latitude 41.11 north, longtitude 33.54 west, near" a Portuguese schooner, which took us m tow. We had planned to rise again when the wind decreased, but we encountered a storm, which damaged the controls of the rudder. 'J Ho steamer Superga overtook the schooner on May 30, and towed the plane to florin under trying conditions."

THREE IT.S.A. AIRMEN KILLED. NEW YORK, June 5. At Fort Worth, in Texas, three flyers were killed when a machine fell five hundred feet, bursting into flames. FLYING PRIZE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 7. A message from Detroit states business men meet to-morrow for the purpose of raising a prize of fifty thousand dollars for the first commercial plane to fly from Detroit to London with a load equivalent to five passengers. Harvey Campbell, sponsor of the project, said: “We have in mind the creation of an incentive to build planes capable of practical flights, instead of flights where one or two men carry a load of gasolene.” Campbell stated no such plane was at present being built, but he pointed out that the prize won hy Lindbergh had been available for eight years.