AVIATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1928, Page 2

AVIATION.

A GREAT FLY. (united Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) KARACHI. April fl. Costes and Lebrix reached Karachi ibis evening after flying five thousand miles from Tokio since .Monday. A lew hours after reaching Karachi they resumed the journey to Basra, despite the darkness. They hope to reach Paris by Friday. ATLANTIC' FLIGHT. ".BREMEN’S” START. LONDON, April 12. Dublin reports that the German airman Koehl’s monoplane, “Bremen,” started for America at -5.30 o clock this (Thursday) morning. LONDON, April 12.

The German aeroplane “Bremen” took off in the presence of the President of tli# Irish Free State, Mr Cosgrave, the German Consul, and five hundred spectators. Airman Kochi stated that evoijtliing favoured the success of the flight. The Atlantic weather report was excellent. The plane is taking the great north circle route. The “Bremen” passed over Galway at 7.0 a.in. to-day. She was flying strongly. The “Bremen” was last seen at Castleho, twenty miles west of t.illway. The visibility was then had Commander lliihitlield and Commander Fitzinaurice (head of the Irish Air Force), are accompanying Koehl.

FREE STATE COMMANDANT’S PROPHESY. LONDON. April 12. In connection with the departure this morning of tlie monoplane “Bremen” on the attempt to fly the Atlantic from Ireland to America, the head of the Irish Free State Air Force. Commandant Fitzinaurice, who is accompanying the two German airmen engaged, sent a message before tlte departure of the “Bremen” in which lie said: “In view of her geographical position, in reference to the future of air transport, it is appropriate that Ireland should he associated with the present flight, any discouraging criticism of which could be answered by the simple statement that every success Acquires a certain amount of risk.” Commandant Fitzinaurice adds: “By the time tills is published, we shall he a hundred miles from the Irish coast. God willing, thirty hours thereafter wo shall reach New York, and shall claim the conquest of the Atlantic, westwards.”

ARE FRENCH FLIERS DOWN? CALCUTTA, April 12. There is a lack of news of the French fliers. This leads to the belief that they have been forced down in the Rajputana desert. NON-STOP RECORD. LONDON. April 11. The “ Flying Scotsman,” the most famous train in the world, will establish a world’s record non-stop run from London to Edinburgh, 392 miles, on May Day. The present noil-stop record is from London to Carlisle, 300 miles, which is regarded as the limit of the driver’s endurance. The new record is made possible by the invention of a corridor tender communicating with the train, allowing a change of drivers to he made. Ihe Flying Scotsman ” has left King’s Cross Station. London, for Edinburgh every week-dav for the Isat sixty-six years.