AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1930, Page 5

AVIATION

ANOTHER INTRIEIjiD FLYER

FROM NEW ZEALAND

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

(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 13

Charles Purnell Parkei-sou, of Dean Street, Auckland, flew from Lympne to Brooklands wliero be is installing extra petrol tanks in his all metal Gipsy Moth, which he intends to fly to Australia. . It will have a flying range of fifteen to twenty hours, and a cruising speed of 90 to 100 miles per hour. He is taking off about the 23rd. He intends to christen the plane, which is painted a silver and saxo blue, ‘‘Silver Heels.” Mr Parkerson only qualified for a pilot’s A license recently. He was learning at Lympne..

IN THE AIR. MARLBOROUGH CLUB TO THE FORE. ' BLENHEIM, Feb. 14. Another lady, in Sister V. Farmer, of Wairau Hospital, has joined the ranks of women aviators, gaining henticket from Wing Commander Grant Dalton this morning. Others who were successful in the tests were: Messrs Ewen D. McFarlane., Alex Ward,* Noel Rose, W. T. Churchward, W. Perkins, and Goring C. Johnston, all of Blenheim; Thurston G. Adams, of Palmerston North, and Terence Lovell Gregg, of Picton. The Marlborough Aero Club has now turned out 22 A pilots. ■ Lovell Gregg is only 17 years of age. The Moth, ZK., AAJ., piloted by Captain Chandler left at 9.35 for Christchurch to attend the Canterbury Club’s pageant, accompanying him. in a service Moth, piloted by Flight Lieutenant Burrell, with Wing Commander L. Grant Dalton, as a passenger.

FLYERS’ PROGRESS. LONDON, Feb. 13. Piper and Kqve left Malta for Tobruk, Tripoli.