AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1930, Page 6

AVIATION

THE. ATLANTIC,

CROSSED IN A DAY

BY AMERICAN AIRMEN

[United Press Association. —By Electric 1 . Telegraph.—Copyright.]

LONDON, Oct. 10.

The American airmen, Boyd and Connor Succeeded in their flight across the Atlantic Ocean froni' Harbour Grace, Newfoundland 'in the plane -“Columbia.” They made their landing in the Scilly Isles at fresco. Boyd and Connor were forced down, owing to their discovery that their petrol pipe had been choked. The defect was discovered just three miles off the Scilly islands. ' The airmen immediately made for the nearest island. If this trouble find developed five minutes earlier or five minutes later, the plane r would have' crashed into the sea,f Hie landing wa* made on Tresco Beach ,at 1.30 p.m. -/It. was effected most easily. ‘ V ■' /a.”.). - ' „. .■' " The ‘‘Columbia 5 ’ was in the air for just twenty-four hours. Thie good time due to a following wind. The . “Columbia’’ is proceeding ,to Croydon to-morrow (.Saturday) .; ..' MAY FLY ON TO AUSTRALIA. LONDON, Oct. 12. The American airmen, Boyd and Connor, are considering the matter of continuing their flight on to Australia. .They will decide within two diys. _ , . . ~ )■ COLUMBIA AT CROYDON.) ; LONDON, oct v 12. The Columbia plane with Boyd, and Connor, lias landed;, jib Croydon. ■: HILL’S HOPES. = OF BEATING .HINKLER’S Tl>tK.|} KARACHI, Oct. 11. _ The .aviator Hill arrived he-ie at'7 o’clock this evening, after a rapid flight of nine hburs froni; Jask. When interviewed he said: “"All has gone well since leaving London.” He hoped to (beat Bert Hinkler’s record- -by increasing- His speed and lengthening his stages. ! LATHE. 'Hill has arrived at Bushire. SMITH LEAVfcS ATHENS.

ATHENS, Oct. ill

\Ving-Commander. Kiiiigfjford . Smith left lie re .for- Aleppo at 6.20’ this morning oil (his flight to Australia.

MISS CLIFFORD. PROPOSES SOLO FLIGHT. : - ''> ; . 6ct. •n: ... “x have not my father’s' consent yet 'but I hope to leave for Australia before Christmas,” said the New Zealand aviatrix, Miss Arolia Clifford, who has been busy at the Stag Lane Aerodrome, doing an engineering course as part" of Tier training for a solo, flight. | MILLIONAIRE’S CRASH. CAPETOWN, Oct. 11. The American millionaire, Marshall Field, and his wife, who have been spending a leisurely honeymoon flying froih England to Kenya, crashed at Nimule, on the Uganda border. The party ‘ were riot hurt. They motored to Jaba, and they hope to resume the flight to-day. VICTORIAN AIR TRAGEDY. MELBOURNE, Oct. 12, The Air Accidents Investigation Committee, reporting on the death of David Smith, wffiich occurred on September 17th, ’ states that there is no evidence that .Smith was not medically fit, but ho had not taken the precaution to affix a safety belt. His machine was of the experimental type, for which, as it was being flown within a three-miles radius of the aerodrome ( no permission of certificate of airworthiness was necessary. FRENCH AIRMEN. NEW YORK, Oct. 11. Earnings of the French airmen, Cost© and Bellonte, who, as cabled on October 1, flew the Atlantic to America, and later made American flights, will total one hundred thousand dollar. They are returning home on Friday, having received fifty thousand dollars for the Dallas flighty and the remainder for newspaper articles, and radio broadcasts.

ONLY EYE WITNESS. OF RlOl CRASH. TELLS HIS STROY. PARIS, October 11. « Since the airship RlOl crashed the police have been searching for a .poacher who is known as having been the only actual eye-witness of the crash. The man is named Georges Rabouville. He has now come forward, and made a statement. The man was laying snares for rabbits at Beauvois Wood, in the middle of the fateful night. He first saw the airship, with all of its lights, flying very low over Allonne. She undoubtedly was in distress. She Was fighting against a gale of rain, and was steadily losing height. Suddenly, she dipped and descended a little. Then she seemed to straighten out, and then sank slowly to earth, still going ahead till her forepart struck the ground. A tremendous explosion followed, and the craft hurst into flames. Rabouville states he also, heard two lighter^ explosions and, cries ; for help, but he saw no one come out. Rabouville says that he lost Ins head, aud ran away. . W ' HELIUM SUPPLIES. WASHINGTON, October 10, Mr Hoover, in a statement to-day, said the Government .was encouraging •the;-' exportation of helium gas for lighter than air .craft, rather than hampering it. THE AIRSHIP QUESTION. (Received 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, October 12. Arguing that the airs ip question was not a British but an Imperial one, Sir Samuel Hoare. suggests a conference of Mr MacDonald and the Dominion Premiers and a representative of India to decide the future of the airship experiment. KTNGSFORD SMITH. . LONDON, October 12. 'Kingsford Smith has arrived at Bushin). ,