AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1929, Page 5

AVIATION

(Australian Press Association) PARIS, July 30. At the third attempt, Baryse Bastie at the women’s air flight endurance record, was aloft for 1000 minutes, beating the American, Elinor Smith’s, by 22 minutes. Baryse is exceptionally pretty and frail looking, totally unsuggestive of an airwoman.

ANOTHER PLANE CRASHES. (Received this" day at 9.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 30. third plane crashed on the mountains yesterday, when a Moth flown by Walter Crotliers stalled at a height of three thousand feet, in the teeth of a heavy gale. It circled round till it struck a tree. The machine burst into flames and was destroyed. Crotliers was badly burnt. BRITISH AIRSHIPS. FILLING WITH GAS. LONDON,’ July 29. The task of inflating a giant hun-dred-passenger Burney-Rolls Royce airship with five million cubic feet of hydrogen gas begins at Howden, Yorkshire to-dav. It is expected to occupy a month, after which the Air Ministry expects to conduct shed tests. The airship’s preliminary test flights will tuen be made over Britain prior to the Atlantic flight to Canada.

TACONA PLANE WRECKED. NEW YORK, July 28. The second Tncona plane has been completely wrecked. Bromley said the gas spre.ved from the fuselage tanks temporariltv blinded him. He will attempt the flight again ns soon as the plane has been renewed. sustained Plight test. , NEW YORK, July 28. Tho St. T.ouis-Robin aeroplane had been up 375 hours at 10.17 Sunday night. TWO PLANES CRASH. LONDON. July 29. Two Moth planes collided over Kingsbury and both crashed, one ablaze. Three airmen were killed.