AVIATION.
Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) TRANS-ATLANTJO AIR SERVICE. PARIS, March 23. The French airman, Rene Fonck, returned from America. He says that a forty million dollar company has been formed to organise a Trans-Atlantic Air Service. There will be a series ol floating islands every 325 miles across the Atlantic, one of which will be completed shortly, and will be moored two hundred miles from New York. ANOTHER AMERICAN NOTION. LONDON, March 24. “The Innocents Abroad” will be brought up to date when a cargo ot American tourists fly to Europe in a Heel of thirty aeroplanes. They will land from a steamer at Bremen, and will then fly to sixteen cities, covering 2800 miles in three weeks. Then they will bustle home. VICTORIAN AKRTAL DERBY. MELBOURNE, March 25. The Victorian Aerial Derby was won by Major De llaviland, with Captain Matthews second, and L. Farmer third. Bert Hinkler participated. The time was 5 min 31 sees.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1928, Page 2
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