AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1930, Page 5

AVIATION

SMITH. ’4^ .i&V.Vj,■ *-’• ■ 7?• ■ (United Press Association—By Electpic ■•. Telegraph—Copyright). ' ] ' NEW YORK, July 24;!;" Kingsford Smitfh and Stannage sailed in a liner for Europe. Smithy ex- ’ pects to start the flight to Australia 'j 4 v - within a week or t\yp..after .reaching ' England. ’!• A COMING FLIGHT. LONDON, July 24. '.Mrs Victor, Bruce proposes to start /iw 'less than silt, weeks . time on a long. ; y-- ; ' ffiglrf in course of which ‘it is .expected ihe. will' visit Australia. ROUND EUROPE FLIGHT. : - (-'PROGRESS OF RACE. .. # . ,• , v (Received this dav at IJ a.m., • i J'M ' RUGBY,.:- July 24. ‘ Two'British Moth aeroplanes, pilot-, ed respectively by Alan Butler and Captain Broad were the first to reach Nimes, en route to Barcelona to-day,. ; in the circuit of Europe race. They arrived. in •• control Within five minutes .of each other, Butler lending.,, The course from Nimes lies by wrqy ; . of Lyons across Switzerland, South. Gei many and Austria to Poland and . then, back ,to the starting point, Ber- . lin, by way of Danzig. , ,V. ... LONDON, July 24.', i -n ilvlßroad arrived at Lausanne ahead of .’Butler. and Thorn. .V, V- TO FLY ATLANTIC. BERLIN, July 24. .WOlfhirth,:. who lost a leg in an' air crash, and Oscar Weller, a jour.t:naliat,. have left Stuttgart,, in a * 1 . ■ Klemoifi monoplane for Cricago,. via ” Orltneys, Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland, ..7.