AVIATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1927, Page 3

AVIATION.

HONOLULU FLY. FIVE PLANKS START. (Austrnlh n it N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received this day nt 11 0 a.m.) SAX FRANCISCO. Aug. 10. Five planes hopped off from Oakland at noon to-day for the Dole race to Honolulu, before a cheering crowd of 200,000 spectators. Griffin and Henley in the monoplane Oklahoma were the first away. Griffin started his heavily loaded plane down the run-way promptly at 12. Soon the machine soared into the air.

Goddard was next, moving down the run-way two minutes later, piloting Eloncanto, hut was tillable to i'eavethe, ground and rocked from side to side down the course. Then the left wing snapped in the middle. Neither Goddard nor the navigator were hurt. The plane was too heavily loaded to rise.

Irving took off in a Pabco flier at four minutes past twelve, hut stopped one minute' later, being also unable to leave the ground, frying declared the. plane got away too rpiickly. He announced lie would try again as soon as possible after the others departed.

Charles Parkhurst, whose plane Air King, was discpialifted after the takeoff announced following the failure of two planes to rise, that the committee were absolutely right of barring him. Frost, in a Golden Eagle, took off successfully at 12.30 being followed half a minute later bv Peddlar and Miss Mildred Doran in a plane, Miss Doran.

Ninety seconds later, Jensen followed in Aloha, then Goebel took the runway a minute afterwards in AVoolaroo while Erwin in a Dallas Spirit departed at 12.36.