AVIATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1928, Page 2

AVIATION.

( United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) THE RED ROSE. MELBOURNE, April 8. Captain Lancaster and Airs Miller, in the Red Rose, arrived here, completing their (light from England. The aviators were enthusiastically welcomed by a large crowd. POND AND KINGSKORR SAIITH. NEW YORK, April G. A mossugo tVoin Alodosto, California, reports that Lieutenant George Rond states that he and Captain Kingsl’ord Smith, the Australian, plan to attempt to llv round the world this summer. ARCTIC ELY. ROME. April 8. Nobile states the priest will celebrate ...ass at the request of the Pope over the Role, where a cross from the Pope w ill he fixed along side the Italian flag. The priest is to take a small altar anti the necessary mass vessels. AIR DEMONSTRATION. (United Service.) LONDON. April ft. Aviators demonstrated at the annual rally at I ladleigh. the operations of light aeroplanes. Sylvia Edwards alter five hours piloting experience was towed in a Bluebird behind a motor ear. Single-handed she unfurled her wings, started the engine, and flew at a speed of eighty miles an hour. A segt. in a pilot boat was forced to choose between death or a leap in the darkness, when the engine of a Siskin tighter failed at Brentwood on Saturday night, lie said: "I seemed enveloped in a black pall over a bottomless jiit, I turned on the lights so that people seeing the machine falling could get out of the way. I harnessed on a parachute and jumped. The machine went hurtling downwards and erashed to earth below me. I floated down two thousand foot and landed in a field. A signalman found me rather dazed, stopped :l train and sent me on it to Brentwood. The aeroplane was a total wreck. A LONG FLY. PARIS. April ti. A remarkable flight from Paris to Tinilnicioo and back. t>2t!t) miles, in four and a half day-, was made by Captain Cornilhni and Gerurdot. Hew day and night with five stops long enough for tre-h supplies.

NEW FLYING TRAIN. BERLIN. April 8. A flying train for long distance is the latest amazing aviation plan in Germanv. It consists of three aeroplanes connected by long hawsers and ingenious coupling'. The “locomotive aeroplane” is a super-powered machine to which the others are coupled. The idea is to enable the construction of giant air liners hitherto impracticable. owing to the difficulty of heavily loaded machines taking off. The “flying tug” will lift off the liners and slip the bowsers in midair. The chief pilot. Herr Goebedinkel will give a public demonstration on Monday when he J,s using two glider machines.