AVIATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1928, Page 3

AVIATION.

ANOTHER ATLANTIC ATTEMPT.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service

PARIS, July 22,

Lieutenants Marrot and Paris and a wireless operator, Cndou, left Brest in the-seaplane “La Frigate,” lor New York, via the Azores. They have five thousand litres of petrol.

RIOO'S COMING FLY. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.l LONDON July 23. Two hundred have applied for berths, some offering £IOOO, for the first United Stntes-Britnin flight of R.IOO. No passengers will he carried on the first flight from England to America in the autumn, which is expected to take forty-eight liouis.

AIR RACE CRASHES. (Received this day at 9.30" a.m). LONDON, July 22. Twelve machines crashed in the King’s Cup race. The only one injured is a passenger in R. Whitehead’s machine which was forced to land and overturned near Burystednumd’s. . Pilots agreed the conditions were deplorable. It was a battle for life from Newcastle through the mist shrouded mountains. Miss Spooner crdslied into a peak when an upward current shot her fifty feet, throwing her from lier seat. Two machines collided at Nottingham aerodrome and another taxied into a motor car at the start.

flyer missing. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 23. In the King’s Cup race, one flyer, Warwick is missing. He failed to- arrive at Renfrew on Friday night from Newcastle on the last stage of the fifrst day’s racing. Yesterday afternoon, four aeroplanes set out from Renfrew Aerodrome and searched the lonely moorlands in Southern Scotland, hut lio trace of Warwick or his machine were found.