AVIATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1927, Page 2

AVIATION.

DE PINEDO ACROSS.

(Australian Press Association & Sun.)

LISBON, June 12. De Pinedo has arrived from Azores

AIR TEST

LONDON, June 12. Thitrv-two air force bombers lully armed and manned, commence on Tuesday, a forty-eight hours continuous reliability flight around Britain.

MILLIONAIRE DBOAV NV. D

Australian Press Association & Sun.)

NEW YORK. June 12

Dalzell McKee, a Pittsburg, multimillionaire, was drowned ill an aeroplane which dropped into a hike in Lanretition Mountains. Deceased was a remarkable person in business and aviation. He devoted the last five years to developing trans-Continental and other flights, carefully hiding his identity in these undertakings. Ho was testing a plane for a flight from Montreal to Alaska, when the machine broke in twain during a squall over the lake.

BRITAIN’S AIR POSITION

LONDON. June 12.

• The newspaper “Observer,’’ in an editorial examines American enthusiasm over the recent trans-Atlantic flights and condemns British backwardness in civil aviation, which is attributed to “our official refrigerators, otherwise the Air Ministry, which allowed Carr and Gillman to return from the Persian Gulf unwelcpmod and unlinnoured. “Our aerial ought to match our naval reputation.’.’ tlie “Observer states. “ yet other countries do not consider us a first rank flying nation. The Air Ministry’s spirit is too military and imposes cramping instructions on design and enterprise. Tu civil flying. out of eighty world s air recoids. Britain holds not one. vet orders follow records. For instance. Canada is ordering aeroplanes from the l nited States.”