AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1928, Page 2

AVIATION

Australian Press Assn.—United Serrice AEBOPLANES CRASH. LONDON, August 17. Two Air Force machines collided ill the air near Digby. Both pilots and also the observer of the second machine were killed. PACIFIC FLIER’S TWO WIVES. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18. Mrs Erma Naior Lyon received an annulment in the Superior Court here to-day of her marriage to Captain Harry Lyon, the Pacific flier. The latter, who is in Boston, denies that lie was the husband of the San Francisco woman, while his mother and his wife, Mrs Jane Lyon declared at Paris Hill, Maine, that Erma Naier had never been Captain Lyon’s wife. Tlio attorney for the petitioner Erma, testified that Captain Lyon admitted here six weeks ago that his first wife was living, and that there had never been a divorce. TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT STARTED. OTTAWA, August 18. A message from Cochrane, Ontario states Hassell Parker and Cramer, commenced the second leg of their trans-Atlantic flight- by. the northern route. They started on a sixteen hundred mile hop to Mount Evans, in Greenland, at noon to-day. Their plane is equipued with radio, which will be the fliers’ only communication with civilisation on the flight over barren territory. They are expected to land early on Sunday. Radio communication, however, can only be established by chance, as tlieir wave length is unknown and arrangements had not been made with the Federal authorities before hopping off. The Federal Radio Station in the far north of Canada is watching. FLIGHT PROGRESSING. (Received this day at 8 n.m.l NEW YORK, August 18. Madison, Wisconsin, received a radio from Hassell at 6.4 p.m., stating lie was approaching the Labrador Coast. “SOUTHERN CROSS” BOGGED. PERTH, Aug. 19. The “Southern Cross” was unable to leave because it was bogged at Mankinds, where it landed on its arrival from Adelaide. It probably will ho three days before it will he able to move, and the weather outlook is still unpromising.

Even the Airways Mail plane could not rise with its passengers, who were railed to Geraldton. The Southern Cross was to have gone to Tarnmen, 110 miles, to-day, to lead.