AVIATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1927, Page 2

AVIATION.

ATLANTIC FLIGHT. “AMERICAN GIRL” OVERDUE. 'Australian Press Association & Sun. .LONDON, Oct., 12>. Up to midnight there was no news of AHss Ruth Elder’s aeroplane The American Girl, a single engined monoplane, carrying Afiss Ruth Elder and Captain George Hardeman n a.s co-pilots, which hopped off from Roosevelt Field for a non-stop flight to Paris, via the Alain Coast and Nova Scotia, following Lindbergh’s route.

Though there was no nows up to midnight, the plane was expected to land at Paris at noon on Thursday. Paris is once again in the throes of trans-Atlantic fever. Aliss Elder’s flight has roused the popular imagination to the same height as did that of Lindbergh. At Le Bourget there are elaborate plans to maintain order, including roping off the aerodrome and admission by special passes. A squadron of airmen are meeting the plane.

PLANE IN STORAI AREA. LONDON, Oct. 13. The anxiety is increasing concerning Aliss Ruth Elder and Pilot Haldemanri, as tbe result of news coming of extremely bad weather in the Atlantic in the neighbourhood of tho Azores. The Le Bourget staff are remaining on duty all night. Tho Paris-London air route is illuminated. NEW YORK, Oct. 13. Thirty hours after the departure of “Tho American Girl,” only one ship had reported sighting the plane, when it was five hundred miles at sea. five hours after its departure. No further word was received thereafter although it is estimated that several hundred ships are plying on the route which the machine is taking. Aleteorologists state that if the areoplano is still flying, it should be appioximately twelve hundred miles from tho destination, and should be entering the storm area.

PLANE DOWN NEAR AZORES, illeee'ved this day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 13. The steamship Olympia wirelessed this morning that the monoplane “The American Girl,” carrying Aliss Elder and Captain Haldmann, was forced to alight on the ocean off ■Azores, owing to a broken oil line. The aviators are safe. PARIS, Oct. 13. ' Crowds, mostly women flocked Le Bourget since dawn awaiting the arrival of Aliss Elder’s plane, hut no news lmd Ibeen received since the craft was sighted in the western Atlantic. The weather is thick. Communication was maintained all night with' every ship in the Atlantic without result.