AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1929, Page 5

AVIATION

CHICHESTER GIVES UP. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Dcomber 23. It is reported, rrom Tripoli, that Chichester has abandoned his flight as the result of the damage done to Lu Moth-plane. LOXDON, Dcemher 23. Chichester had' prepared for his flight of only three weeks before he started. He pledged the E. A. Jones, who gave him his first lesson, to secrecy. Apart from an extra petrol tank the only special precaution taken was the installation of a collapsible rubber boat with a paddle and sail. CHICHESTER’S MISHAP. (Received this dnv at 11 n.mA LONDON, Dec. 23. Captain Chichester broke a propellor in front of the iliter plane. He will need to wait for a new propejlor which De Haviland’s ave sending through to Tripoli. This takes nearly a fortnight. Chichester’s detailed schedule allowed 180 J hours actual flying time from London to Sydney. AIRMEN ATTEMPT. AT POLAR RESCUE. VANCOUVER/'Dec. 22. Six Canadian airmen sailed to-day for Alaska on an extraordinary expedition hoping to rescue the American flyers Eilsen and Borland, "ho have been missing for several weeksTen days will elapse before the Canadian airmen are on the ground ivith their three Fairchild planes. They will face mid-winter conditions, often forty to fifty below zero, in an unparalleled a tempt to penetrate the remotest distances of Siberia bordering on Bering Strait. i Eilsoh flew a boat plane in Alaska on bis final trip, and local aviators flying recently from Noma who attempted his rescue have been handicapped by inferior machines.