AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1930, Page 5

AVIATION

FRUITLESS SEARCH FOR MISSING AIRMEN.

[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

NEW YORK, Jan. 11. Forty planes combed the., New-York Jersey coastline searching fruitlessly for the test pilot, Daniel Maura and his observer, Graham. Bad weather prevailed when they ascended, and there is littlfe hope of finding them as gales and snow squalls probably carried them out to sea.

Another leading pilot disappeared, in a snow storm on Friday. Maura and Graham have done half a million miles with mail and passengers

MISSING AIRMEN SAFE

NEW YORK, Jan. 11

Pat Reid and two mechanics, who have been missing for a week in Alaska, are reported to he safe. They will continue the search for Eilson and Borland. ;

TO “SNAP” WILD ANIMALS

LONDON, January 13. Lieutenant Commander Glen Kidson, the iron-nerved pilot, is planning a three months’ African tour in a Moth plane. It is to be equipped with a new type of silencer, enabling him to approach wild animals, and also with an electrical camera, built in the fuselage, with which to photograph from the air the varied wild life from Aboukir to Kenya.

I NT)A IN AIRMAN

FLIGHT FOR A PRIZE

LONDON, January 12

Mohan Singh, the .son of a Sikh doctor, left Croydon in a Gipsy Moth plane in an attempt to win the Aga Khan’s prize of £SOO for the first Indian to fly from England to India. He was forced down at Maidstone, and again at St. Quentin. He has left for Le Bourget.

A FORCED LANDING. LONDON, Jan. 13

Singh made a foraeid landing at Noyon. broke his propellor as a result of a bad landing on a marshy ground.