AVIATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1927, Page 2

AVIATION.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

KING HONOURS DE PINEDO. LONDON, June 17. King George has conferred the Air Force Cross on De Pinedo.

ANOTHER ATLANTIC FLIGHT. NEAY YORK, June 18. Captain Byrd has postponed his trans-Atlantic flight, which was to have been to-day. at least until Sunday. the weather being unfavourable. NEAY YORK, June 18. The latest aspirant for trans-Atlan-tic living honours is Airs Luba Phillips, an American of Russian birth, who, during July, will possibly fly from Newfoundland to London, or she may be accompanied by a navigator-pilot, in which event she will endeavour to make a record non-stop flight from New York to Rome or beyond. She flew Anthony Fokker’s first plane, and in 1912 established a women’s altitude record. She carried Red Cross supplies by aeroplane to the Russian Army during the war. Byrd’s flight from New York to Paris will ho with lus North Pole plane. He will he accompanied by three others, and will probably hop off on Alonday or Tuesday. Possibly, if successful, lie will endeavour to make a return flight.

LINDBERGH. NEAA 7 YORK. June IS

At St. Louis .Captain Lindbergh was welcomed home by hundreds of thousands, and was cheered from roof-tops as he cavorted in his plane over the city, having flown from New York.

A PACIFIC FLIGHT. AYASHINGTON, June 18

The U.S.A. Army Department has approved of plans for a flight from California to Hawaii by Lieutenants Afaitalnd and Hoy.enberger (air service pilots) in a triple-motored Fokker monoplane. A test will be conducted at San Diego, following a flight of the machine there from Dayton, Ohio. It is expected the take-off will occur within a month. The flight is designed to subject navigation instruments to n thorough test in practical use.

DE PINEDO. P.OAIE, June 19.

At a grand banquet in honour of Afnrche.se De Pinedo, Signor Al.ussolinl sent a message stating that Italian aviation would strengthen the bonds of the nations of the world. Lindbergh, Chamberlain, De Pinedo and others would open up new horizons of civilisation. The British ambassador announced the King was conferring the highest available honour on De Pinedo.

CARR’S FORCED LANDING. LONDON. June 19.

Carr made a forced landing at Afartlesham witli an unprecedented 7ton load. It is regarded as a masterpiece. Onlookers say he alighted ns light as a feather, with not a vestige of damage to the machine. A minor mishap attended the flight preliminaries, the heavy load bursting a tyre, the moment the machine left the hangar, and the start was delayed for replacement. The car taxied half a mile and th» spectators breathed a sigh of relief when the machine rose, hut it travelled only ninety minutes, covering a distance of about a hundred miles. The aviators then noticed oil spraying on the fnsilnge. While the oil gauge registered nil. Therefore it was impossible to proceed until the cause was investigated. The postponement was a disappointment ns the airman had waited several days for a favourable change of wind.

THE AAIERICAXS AT BERLIN BERLIN, June 17.

At Bremen, Airs Chamberlain and Airs Levine were awakened aboard the Berlin this morning and told that their husbands were coining to meet them. AA’hen the official Reception Committee arrived, they were sitting happi l together in a cosy corner on the upper deck. The photographers insisted they should re-enact the hugs and kisses with which they had greeted earlier in the morning. They did so with remarkable realism.