AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1928, Page 3

AVIATION

(united Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) THE BREMEN. NEW YORK, April 10. I he North German Lloyd representative has received a message mi.n Count Yon 11uhenleklt. stating that he expects to arrive in New York Tuesday, the day on which the Major's Reception Committee' have announced that they will officially open the programme to greet the fliers.

NEW YORK. April 19

It lias now been revealed that Major Fitzmaurieo saved Count Von Huhenfoldt from drowning after the “Bremen” landed at Grocney Island The machine, coming down with great force upon the thin cover of ice on the small pond used ns a reservior. broke through. There had been thaws for several days previous to last Friday, when the “Bremen” came, and tliis had produced pools of water several feet deep under the ice. Count Von Huhenfoldt was making his way from the machine in an exhausted condiion, and he fell headlong into the water. .Major Fitzmaurieo. des-

pite the fact that he himself was purer in,lly stunned by the force of the landing noverthtlcss leaped to the rescue of the other airman. The intense cold was already freezing Count Von Hiihenfeldt’s clothing and he was helpless. Then pilot Koch and .Major Fitzmaurice dragged the baron to the lighthouse, where he was able to dry out.

BREMEN'S PLANis. fßeceivod this day at 8.30 n.mj OTTAWA, April ”1

ff. the present i>lsins are carried out the Ureinen will complete its flight to New York, and after receptions there and at Washington will cruise over Canada and United States for about two'months, visiting nearly all the important cities.

Fitzinaurice will proceed to Grocido.v Island by Ford plane, joining it as a passenger from Murray Bay. Afterwards the Bremen might return to .Europe as it came, with Kobe!. iHuenifold and Fitzmauii'ice as the crew'.

There is a possibility that the Bremen’s propel lor shaft may he found bent, in which ease it will he necessary to revise all the plans for getting the fliers to New York. Tt is anticipated in that event that a hig Ford machine would he utilised. NEW YORK, April If). Major Fitzmnurioe said to-day at Murray Bay: We know now that we should have landed not on the reservoir. but on the ice in the hay. That ice was five feet thick, and it presented smooth stretches long enough for landing purposes. Had we come down there, the damage to the “Bremen” would not have occurred, and we could have learned our position and taken off again.”