AVIATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1927, Page 2

AVIATION.

KILLED IN AIR SMASH. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, June 24. At Pottsville, Pennsylvania, J. T. Walker, aged twenty-one, heir to five million dollars, was killed in ail aeroplane smash.

Cl AIL AVIATION. OTTAWA, June 24. Civil aviation is to he separated from the military Department of Defence. To meet the growers needs of civil Hying branches will be organised to control flying administrative duties and aeronautical engineering.

KILLED IN AIR CRASH. NEAV YORK, June 24

Besides young AVaikci:, who was killed in the plane crash near Pottsville, Pennsyvania, his cousin, C. L. Lambert, was injured. The pair were flying home to-day, when they crashed. Both graduated from Princeton University last week.

NFAU MONOPLANE. LONDON, June 2G,

A new Fokker monoplane, its wings constructed of three ply in the body and wedded steel tubing, equipped with two .Bristol Jupiter engines, and carrying fifteen passengers in a luxuriously furnished saloon, lias arrived at Croydon and is now participating ill regular Loudon to Amsterdam service.

FLIGHT ACROSS ASIA. DELHI, June 26.

Van Leer Black, an American newspaper proprietor, who is flying from Amsterdam to Batavia, arrived at Calcutta, and after a short rest resumed his flight, his next step being Rangoon. Ho is tlie first business man to fly across Asia, for business purposes. Interviewed, lie said tlie flight was so far uneventful.