AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1928, Page 2

AVIATION

GALE ON SYDNEY SIDE. Australian Press Assn.—United Service SYDNEY, Sept. 5. There is a gale locally and this with adverse lneteorologica’ reports from New Zealand, renders the Tasman (light out of the question to-day.

OBJECTION TO SUNDAY LANDING WELLINGTON, Sept. 6.

The Mayor of Christchurch (the Rev. J. K. Archer) was strongly criticised by Air It. A. Armstrong, the (President, at the annual meeting of the Wellington Trotting Club, held tonight. Referring to what he termed the intolerant section of the community who were seizing every opportunity to attack and kill sport, Air Armstrong said that the people bad in tile recent hysterical outburst in Christliureh against the proposed Sunday arrival of the Tasman fliers given an indications of the lengths to which intolerance would go. “This outburst,” said the Chairman, “was one of the most striking examples of intolerance that has ever come before the people of this country. The Rev. Archer even went so far as to send a telegram to the gallant airmen, asking them not to arrive on Sunday. These sportsmen, in attempting to flyover such a great waste of ocean, show a greater practical trust in God and religion than any hymn singing people do who are so narrow minded as to pass such resolutions. Christchurch should ho full of gratitude that the airmen have selected that city as the landing place in New Zealand, without some small and mean-beaded people protesting hysterically against their arriving on a Sunday.”

ANOTHER. DISASTER. VANCOUVER, Sept. 4. One family of four was wiped out In an aeroplane crash, which altogether killed eight. The plane was entering Pocatello Air Port, and was thirty feet off the ground when Pilot Wheatley turned sharply into the wind, which blew in gusts. The right wing collapsed and the plane crashed nose down, turning over several times into rocky hushland. Wheatley's wife and two children, returning from a holiday in Butte, also two newspaper reporters and two mining operators perished, three of them with broken necks.

ANOTHER VICTOR NEW YORK, Sept. 4. A message from Seattle, AVashingtou, states that the body of Alexander Afaccarlnm Scott, a former member of the British Parliament, who was drowned when a Seattle-Victoria monoplane crashed on August 2otli, was recovered to-day.

A GIANT ZEPPELIN. BERLIN, Sept. 4. The trials of the Zeppelin “LZI27” (which is to go to England) have been delayed on account of a difficulty in securing a sufficiency of the new fuel. The trial was first expected to tako place on August loth, for which date formal perniision had just been issued by the Air 'Ministry to visit England. The last Zeppelin was seen in England in wartime, but “LZI27” will bo wclomo, because her crew will be allowed to exchange technical data with tlio crew of “R 100,” which is nearing completion ip Britain. After circling London, the visiting zeppelin will fly on to Bedford, and moor at the steel mast there. It is expected to start out oil a trans-Atlantic venture early in October.

PARIS, September G

It is reported from Casabalanea that Assolant re-started at six in the morning Senegal-wards, hut returned to Le Bourget after a trial flight and decided meantime returning to Paris v Assolant lias broken the record for flying from Paris to Casablanca in nine and a-luilf hours, at an average speed of 1117.} miles per hour. The Aeronautic Department disclaims any responsibilty for the flight as the airmen failed to inform the Department of their intention and the reduced quantity of petrol wherewith the plane started appears to indicate they had only contemplated a trial flight to Dakar or Azores. ATTEAIPT AT RECORD. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). SYDNEY, September G. Keith Anderson ('cabled on 3rd) leaves at six to-morrow morning to endeavour to fly to London in fourteen