AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1930, Page 5

AVIATION

A PLANE WRECKED

ATLANTIC FLY FOILED.

(United Prßai Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright);, (Received tins day at 8 a.m.) f : . HARBOUR GRACE, Aug. 2. .. In in, attempted take-off for Dublin Me«irs’ plane was wrecked just off the airport. Neither'Mears nor: the pilot. Down, were injured. , (Received this day at 8 a.m.) HARBOUR GRACE, Aug. 2: The mishap took place early on Sunday to the/landing gear, and a tyre was punctured. : FLIGHT TO MALTA. . / . LONDON, July 31. Captain Barnard left England this morning in a Moth .limousine on a non-stop; ,1250. mile flight to Malta, and ?;hopes : to flv back, non-stop 'tomorrow.. He reached Malta this evening. ? • • ' AMERICAN AIRMAN. ; ’ ■’..NEW YQRg, August 22. * John Henry Mears, a famed globe trotierj' ‘iff.? ah endeavour to regain the round the' world record, taken by the Graf Zeppelin,. left Rooseveldt field this morning;: for Harbour Grace In the Lockhead-Vega Cabinet monoplane “City' of New York,” with H.. J. Brown as pilot. A Sealyham terrier dog accompanies them.

Means, who made records in 1913 and 1928, now hopes to go round the world in?; twenty days, thus beatjng the| Graf Zeppelin’s twenty-three days fifteen, hours. - ' ■ ■ ' •

The flight , will be via Dublin, Berlin;? Moscow, Novasibrak, Chita, Khabarovsk .and .Chignik,; then , across Bering .Sea' and ; the fringes .of the North Pacific to Seattle, .and'on to Chicago,-. New Yprk,. . . , : . The ‘ ‘City of New York” is fitted with high wings, and. . a 425. horse power wash motor. She has a flying range of eighteen hours , and 2500 rimes and a cruising* of 150 miles .an hour/-’ v' ; ' ;■ : v

The flight is expected to'take only from fifteen t.Q .twenty days.

A message from Harbour Grace, states that Mr iMears arrived there on; Saturday afternoon. He leaves there to-night or . to-morrow for Baldonnel, in Ireland. ■ ■ ,