AVIATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1928, Page 2

AVIATION.

AERIAL transport scheme (Australian A, N.Z. Cable Association.) BKIfl iX. dan. 13. Two representatives of Bumpier Aircraft Works have gone to America with a view to fonnimr a company to carry out tran-Atiantie aeroplane service h.v means of the Bumpier giant all metal flying boats, which have a wing spread of 282 lift and are equipped with ten eight hundred horsepower motors, capable of a speed ol ICO miles an hour. It is predicted they will regularly cross every twentyfour hours, carrying one hundred and Ihirtv passengers and a crew ol thirtylive. The estimated fare is £75 sterling and the route via the Azores and Newfoundland.

TOST CANADIAN FLIERS. OTTAWA, dan. 13. The Canadian Government have named three newly found lakes in north-western Ontario, after the men and women lost in- the Trans-Oceanic and other lliglits last summer. The first is named Lake Doran, a large body of water in the Red Lake District, after Mildred Doran, who perished in tile Honolulu Flight. The others are named after Princess Lowenstein. Tnllv, Medcalf. Minclicii, Bertnud. Hamilton and Rayne. ENDURANCE ATTEMPT FAILS. NEW YORK. dan. M. 'Clarence Chamberlain, mid Roger Williams failed in their attempt to establish a new world's record for the duration of a flight. They were forced to descend to-day. after being aloft for 51 hours 51 minutes. DUTCH AIR LINER. LONDON. Jan. 11.

Yan-Lenr Black has chartered a Dutch air liner to llv from London to Capetown and hack, with the same pilots as in the Dutch Indies (light. air ATTACK. MANAGUA, dan. 11. United States Marine Air Squadron attacking Elchipota today killed forty rebels. SMITH'S ENDURANCE FLIGHT S,\N FRANCISCO, bin. 1 I. Smith's endurance flight i . tuvdjoined till Monday n« in it In a wot run-