AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 7 July 1930, Page 5

AVIATION

23 DAYS FLYING

CHICAGO PLANE LANDS,

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

NEW YORK, July 5

The “City of Chicago” endurance plane landed at Chicago at o.iO o’clock on Friday afternoon. She was in the air for 33,220 minutes, thus breaking all of the sustained flight records. A broken oil gunge necessitated the lauding of the machine. FLYER INJURED. SAINT JOHN, July f>.' NEWFOUNDLAND. Major C. S. Wynne Evton was painfully injured when a Dchavilaud Puss moth ..aeroplane crashed in a take off for Harbour Grace, whence lie had planned to /start a lone flight to Ireland. Spectators removed him from the wreckage three minutes before the gas tanks exploded, burning the plane. The flier’s condition is not serious. HOOK AND MATTHEWS CRASH IN EAST. RANGOON, July 5. The Government has received a message that Hook and Mntthew’s neropiane “Drynsel” crashed when 12 miles outward from Taungup, but details are lacking. The Government has asked the district and local officers to conduct an immediate search and report. Communications between Akyab and Rangoon, which were interrupted by recent storms and by an earthquake are now fully restored, but the weather - is reported to be the roughest fn the district, with dense and ccntfnuous rain.

Telegrams from Akyard confirm that the fliers departed at six o’clock on Thursday morning, when they did mention that they would attempt to proceed further than Rangoon.

SYDNEY PLANE CRASHES

SYDNEY, July 6

A Junkers junior monoplane, piloted l)3 r -Goyer Henry, and carrying Arthur Lund as'a passenger, while en route from Mascot to Brisbane, was seen to be in trouble over Manly. The engine appeared to be cut off, and the machine nose-dived. It struck a fence and overturned.

Lund was killed instantly, and Henry was severely injured.

THREE AIRMEN INCINERATED

PARIS, July 5

Wliile ascending at Villa Coublay to go to an air meeting at Augei'gtie, an aeroplane got into a corkscrew spin. It then took fire and crashed, whpn its occupants, Baron De Jrecourt, Count De Roye and their mechanic were all three incinerated.