AVIATION
OFF HER COURSE
ROMA NOT REACHED
(Australian Press Association)
SYDNEY, May 28
Advice was received at Sydney tonight that Miss Amy Johnson bad got off her course. She landed at Quilpie, which is 130 miles west of Cliarleville.
She refuelled there, and she intended to follow the railway line to Cbarieville, where she is to remain overnight.
ARRIVAL AT CHARLES VI DDE
A SHORT MESSAGE
(Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 29
Miss Amy Johnson landed at Charlesviilc, Queensland, just after six tonight. She had become separated from the escorting airplane. She received an ovation. Her broadcast talk originally fixed for Roma was of the briefest.
Messrs Wakefield's representative announced ever the air at 9.40 that ; -Amy had a frying trip from Longreach and landed at Charlcsville after dark.
.. Twenty motorists grouped their headlights and ‘flooded the landing ground. Amy made a perfect descent amid deafening cheers. Amy then • spoke:—“Hulloa, Australia, I’m just- going to heel very tired. I may speak to you longer when I reach Brisbane. Good-night.”
AIR PORT FOR LONDON
LONDON, May 28
There is a growing demand for an air port centre in London. The Air Ministry, in ' conjunction with the London County Council, is considering possible sites in Hyde Park. Reggent Park, and Battersea Park. It is pointed out that the distance to Croydon adds forty minutes to the air service from the Continent.
BRITAIN’S NEW WAR PLANE
LONDON, May 28
The Royal Air Force has completed jt.s tests of a new interceptor-fighter, ihe fastest war aeroplane in the world, called the “Hawker Hornet,” capable of a speed of 190 miles an hour. It attained high altitudes and climbed twenty thousand feet in a few minutes.
MONSTER PLANE
A BRITISH PRODUCTION
LONDON. May 27
A. monoplane flying boat, .with sleeping berths for fifty passengers inside the wings, is (being built in the South of England. It will he the largest and heaviest one ever built in Britain.
According to the Daily News, the „ue.\v plane will be used to test the probability' of an AH Reel route between Britain and the Dominions. It will lie able to make a non-stop (light from London to Malta.
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