AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1930, Page 6

AVIATION

SMITH AND SHIERS. (Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, April 2. The aviators, Smith and Shiers, accompanied by the search party, arrived at Wyndham to-day. They were fit and well. Smith’s father, in Sydney, has received a; message saying: “Thank God for the wireless! We passed through an anxious period. We intend to effect repairs to the plane, and then go on. FLIGHT ROUND AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY April 2. The Sydney airmen Frank Bardsley, Reg. Annabell, and K. Wedgewood, using their own Gipsy Moth aeroplanes, will begin a flight around Australia to-morrow. KAYE AND PIPER. SYDNEY, April 2. The Shell Oil Company have been advised that Piper and Kaye left Longreaeh at 6.47 a.m. to-day, and Ithat they hope to reach Bourke, in New South Wales to-night. Local advices, however, state that there is a terrific dust storm prevailing out west, which may retard the aviators, who expect to reach Sydney to-morrow at three o’clock. PIPER AND KAYE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 2. Piper and Kayo have arrived at Bourke and are leaving there for Narromine. to-morrow morning and will probably come on to Sydney in the afternoon. 8 EXHAUSTED FLIERS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 2. Smith and Shiers were so exhausted when they reached Wyndham, that thev fell asleep and the townspeople s welcome was postponed. The story of their experiences is not available. PILOTLESS PLANE. ROME, April 1. The , spectators at Aerodrome witnessed fin extraordinary runawfiy flight by a pilotless aeroplane which did a series of complicated manoeuvres at a height of six hundred feet before crashing in flames. The pilot, who was about to ascend, left the cockpit momentarily, but he accidentally started the engine, and oefore he was able to intervene, the plane rose beautifully, and began its hair-raising evolutions, always keeping up the circles’ of flight. After twenty minutes, however, a gust of wind threw the plane ifito a slide, and then the machine crashed. \ ATLANTIC FLIGHT. LYON’S ATTEMPT FROM EUROPE NEW YORK, April 2, The airman, Lyon ; stated from Paris, in the': State of Maine, that an. aeroplane is now being built in California in which lie expects to fly from England fo America early in the summer with Mrs Miller and Lancaster.