AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1930, Page 3

AVIATION

NEW AIR RECORD.

L United Press Association—By Electrii Telegraph.—Copyright.]

NEW YORK, June 20

A Chicago advice states'that at 8 o’clock on ’Sunday night, the aeroplane “City of .Chicago,” • had flown continuously for 435 hours 21 mins 30 secs, thus exceeding the .non-stop refuelling record by 14 hours. An effort to keep aloft till July 4th. will bo made.

1560 MILE FLIGHT,

NEW YORK, June 29

Roger G. Will iarns,, with two companions, in the Bajlanea monoplane “Columbia,”, landed at Curtis Field at 10.10 p.m., thus ending a round-trip flight to Bermuda, which*. took 17 hours 8 minutes for the 1560 miles. The plane took off at .5.20 a.m. from the Roosevelt Field, and it arrived at Bermuda 91 hours later. - I*. dropped a mail on the golf course. there. Good weather, was experienced throughout. The aviators were testing the. practicability of a New York. Bermuda commercial air line. g Cider demOnstr ation . CHANNEL TRTPS PREDICTED. t LONDON, June 29, Twenty thousand jietr.snns wiatched a. glider meeting n-t..Folkestone] where the Continental experts, Herron, Kron-,. field and Magersiippe, gave a series of .'lemonstration "'flights. Kronfield pro--, phesied. thpt the Channels, would . V Howi'i by means of a glider before the. end'of 1931. j BRITISH TRAGEDY. ... v 1 NOTED PILOT KILLED. ' , LONDON,.: June 30. A noted air pilot, Alexander Anderon, and an engineer named Hammett, raslibd in an aeroplane at. 010,711011. Both were killed. /, Anderson was a leading parachutist, wing- w' lker and acrobat. Hundredsof holiday-makers witnessed the accilent'. 1 .