AVIATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1927, Page 2

AVIATION.

D’OISY’S SMASH

BY TELEGRAM—MESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT,

PARIS, June 14

Doisy’s ami Gouin’s take-off and escape from the blazing ’plane is one of the most dramatic episodes m aviation. After first deciding to postpone the venture, in view of the weather, Dois.v .suddenly resolved to start in the presence of a few people at Le Bourget. He took off perfectly after a long run, hut he had an obvious difficulty in Using owing to there being stormy atmospheric conditions and the added six tons load.

Doisv then resolved to land at the first opportunity, but ho was compelled to fly for two miles, as low as 35 feet, before reaching a field sufficiently large to land. Seeing a cornfield, he descended there", and landed perfectly, and the machine then taxied at a terrific pace for 20 yards, when, without warning, the landing wheels collapsed. Doisv shouted ’* Jump! ” and he and Gouin leapt out just as one thousand gallons of petrol exploded, and thtmaehine became a mass of flames. Both airmen crawled clear, and they rolled in the wheat to extinguish the flames, which had already caught their clothing. ROOK’S PROGRESS. CAIRO, June 14. The aviator Rook has arrived at Heliopolis. AEROPLANES FOR ECLIPSE. LONDON. June 14. A fleet of Imperial aeroplanes leaves Croydon on 29th June to view the eclipse of the sun from the air from the northern totality zone. Astronomers in machines equipped with telescopes and instruments will fly as high as possible with the object of avoiding atmospheric hindrances.

CARR’S GREAT EFFORT

LONDON. June 15

The first connected narrative c,f Carr’s and Gillman’s descent in the Persian Gulf mailed to a friend in London, discloses sleeplessness and strain began to tell. To quote theii own words: “Instruments and gauges began'to grin and make faces at us. The parachute did not get adrift and sections protruded from the water lme sharks’ fins, a grim suggestion of the actual fate which they escaped, by abandoning their intention to swim ashore.

DK PINE DO’S OPINION. MADRID . June 15

Asked which was the best trans-At-Nlantic flight, Do Pinedo replied unhesitatingly, “Lindbergh’s, because of the heroism and endurance required for an unaccompanied flight. 1 He expressed the opinion that trails-Atlantic commercial service was possible, hut the right type of machine must he discovered. “My ambition is to find aplane in which can he made a circuit of the world without being a- s’ave to time. Personally 1 found the Journey crossing to America more difficult than the vice versa journey.