AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1929, Page 5

AV IATION

A NON-STOP FLIGHT. (United Press Association—By Electri. Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 11.25. a.m.) TOKIO, July 17. Lieut. Harold Bromley leaves Tacona at the earliest on a non’-stop flight to Tokio, a distance of 4750 miles. KINGSFORD SMJTH TO FLY ATLANTIC. LONDON, July 17. “It is now almost definite that we will fly the Atlantic,” Ivingsford Smith told a Herald ” correspondent. “ We will not attempt a spectacular flight, but will fly to Africa until we find a convenient spot from which to take off. We may even go as far as South Africa and thence fly to South America. Arrangements will be finalised after the ’plane has been reconditioned.” H

BTG SOVIET PLANE STARTS ON GOOD-WILL FLIGHT. LONDON, July 17. “The Times” Paris correspondent suites: There is a Soviet aeroplane which is making a goodwill European flight. It has arrived at Le Bourget. r j here are eleven persons aboard, including five Russian journalists. The machine is an all-metal monoplane. It was constructed at Moscow. She is equipped with three Guoner-Honetirian engines of 230 horse power each. The police took extensive precautions to maintain order at her descent, but only the smallest crowd witnessed her arrival.