AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1930, Page 5

AVIATION

LINDBERGH’S TOUR

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

NEW YORK, November 21

Following on ft preliminary flight to the Pacific Coast and back, Colonel and Mrs Lindbergh will soon leave on a twenty-two thousand mile air tour down the Atlantic Coast of South America. They are going around Cape Horn, and are returning up the Pacific coasts of South and North America for an inspection of the Pan- American Airways Lines. It is understood that the preliminary trip to the Pacific Coast will he for the purpose of the installation of a new wing on the plane which the Lind-\ berghs used on their record flight cabled on April 20th. A new sixhundred horse power Wright motor has also been installed.

MRS MILLER ON OCEAN FLIGHT.

NEW YORK. Novembe 22.

A message from Pittsburg states: Mrs Miller hopped off to-day on a flight to Havana. NEW YORK, Novembe 22.

News from Pittsburg, states that Mrs Miller has advised her backers there that late on Saturday night she whs forced down at Charleston, South Carolina by strong headwinds. She is arranging to take off on Sunday for Havana, via Miami, Florida. Y AN AIR CRASH.

A LUCKY ESCAPE

NEW YORK, November 23

Ben Jones, flying a mail plane across New Jersey went into a tail spin at seven thousand feet, and crashed on the roof of an unoccupied house. The wings tangled in the fuselage and hung suspended from the roof porch. .Tones was hauled out by firemen, who found his only injury was a deep cut on the chin. The engine plunged through two floors to the cellar.

MRS MILLER IN HAVANA

NEW YORK, Nov. 23,

A message from Havana, Cuba, states Mrs Keith Miller landed at General Machado Air Port from Jack. pon-Vilte, Florida, .at 4.50 p.m.