AVIATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1927, Page 2

AVIATION.

'Australian Press Association & Sun, NEW YORK, Oct. 14. Captain Giles landed at Cheyenne, ill Wyoming to-night, from this city, en route to the Pacific Coast. He stated that lie plans to hop off from San Francisco for New Zealand next Wednesday, flying via Hawaii. STORY OF “AMERICAN GIRL." LONDON, Oct. 15. Miss Ruth . Elder and her companion's remarkable mid-Atlantic rescue is the central feature in an extraordinary series of long-distance flights, including two to Australia and two to America. Miss Elder’s adventure continues to excite ail interest that has only been paralleled by that of Hawker’s rescue. It is estimated that the American Girl was in the air for forty-one hours and twentv-six minutes.

The release of the full story appears to be complicated by the attitude of Miss Elder’s backers, who declare i “We have instructed her to keep her mouth shut until we sell the story.”

According to advices, the backers are asking thirty thousand sterling for the story.

The Captain of the steamer Barendrocclit (which effected the rescue) wirelessed the landing of Miss Elder and Captain Haldeman at the Azores on Saturday. Both were fatigued. Miss Elder is continuing hv boat to Paris.

A graphic wireless report reveals that the machine struck a terrific storm on Wednesday night and battled against it for eight hours, until daylight, when the oil pressure gauge began to drop, and they feared -that the engine would seize at any moment. They zigzagged for five hours until they sighted the vessel. The crew of the steamer secured the. plane, and agreed as to its salvage, and they were about to haul it ejboard, when the plane burst into flames, and was almost instantaneously destroyed. Nothing was saved. LONDON, Oct. 5.

Considerable excitement was aroused at the Azores by the arrival of the German Junker’s plane, with the actress, Madame Dillenz, aboard. There she will await Miss Elder’s arrival in order to convey to her Europe s congratulations. Madame Dillenz will then take ofF for New York, a distance of 2109 miles.

LONDON. Oct. 15.

Barendroechto, the wireless operator, narrates when the plane alighted the aviators climbed to the top of tlio machine. Miss Elder donned a safety suit. The rough sea. increased the difficulties of launching a boat. Explosions threw flames up to the height of the ship’s bridge and if the Barendrocht had carried petrol she would have been blown up. The aviators lost their paracutes, luggage and passports.

CfoSTE CROSSES ATLANTIC. LONDON, Oct. 14. Costes has set out on a big adventure from Senegal to Brazil, with serene confidence, despite the fact that the same stretch of the Atlantic Ocean thus far has not been crossed on a non-stop flight. Ho expects to complete the journey in from eighteen to twenty hours. LONDON. Oct. 14. A message from St. Louis (Senegal) states that the French airman, C'oste, resumed his flight to Brazil this morning. VANCOUVER, Oct. 14. A message from Pernambuco states: Cosies ami Lebrix landed at Port Natal. 100 miles north of Pernambuco, on the extreme east coast of Brazil, at 11.40 o’clock to-night. COBHAM’S NEW PLANE. LONDON, Oct. 15. Early next month, Sir A. Cobham will leave in what is expected to he the world’s biggest and fastest flying boat on a 20,000 miles flight, encircling the African continent. The machine is loaned by the Air Ministry, who arc co-operating in a survey of air route air stations. LONDON, Oct. 15. Monday will witness the start of the four super-marine Napier flying boats on their 25,000 miles Empire tour to Australia. If is to occupy a year, and therefrom a chain of marine air stations connecting India and Australia is expected to result. MILITARY PLANE’S CRASH. BERNE. Oct. 14. A Swiss military aeroplane crashed at Kirchdorf. The occupants were Captain Von Tobel and Lieut. Hugh. Both were killed. DUTCH AIR COLLISION. BRUSSELS, Oct, 14. Two aeroplanes collided at Ever© One landed, the pilot being injured slightly. The other piano crashed a distance of 450 feet. Tts pilot was killed. AN AVIATION FEAT. RIO JANEIRIO, Oct. 16. Conquering tho South Atlantic for the first time, Costes and Lebrix came to rest in Rio Harbour last night, from Pernambuco. UP IN THE AIR. LONDON, Oct. 15. Two British attempts at a height record will be made next week. Captain Uwins, clad in electrically heated clothing, equipped with oxygen apparatus, flying a Bristol Bulldog, with specially large wings and Jupiter engine, aims at reaching eight miles. The present record is Sadi Leconites 36,220 feet (6 miles, 4,540 feet). Captain Broad will make an attempt in a light plane to heat the German Baumer’s 22,000 feet.