AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1931, Page 5

AVIATION

AIRMEN ARRIVE

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

(Received this ,day at 9.25 a.m) BATAVIA, May 27

The air liner Able Tasman arrived here and also a few Lours later, the aviator, Scott. Both were heartily welcomed. RECORD TRAVELLING. LONDON, May 27. The airman, Hawkes set another record. He breakfasted in London, lunched in Berlin and dined in Paris. Left Paris at . 8.16 for Croydon, arrived at 9.34; left for Berlin at 10.15, arrived at 1.36, left for Paris, at 3.6 arrived at 6.7. He avei'aged 190 mile s an' hour; against all day houtl winds. BCjnwg<rsgg»' PICARD’S AIR EFFORT. (Received this ; day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, May 27. A Ruggburg message states Picard wag out of ‘.sight’ at noon, in the neighbourhood of Lake Constance. He w a s last seen at Friederichshafen with the aid of powerful glasses. He was drifting towards the Rhine. Experts are worried bow he will land without parachutes and regard the -.venture as very risky. Professors Person and Suering, the holders of the record of 35,‘435 feet, fear Picard has not netted the ga,s bag for the unequal pressure of extreme altitudes. On the- contrary Professor Bergen calculates by 7.30 the balloon was already up fifty-two thousand feet a«d success is certain. STILL IN AIR. ANXIETY FOR PICARD. (Received this day at 1.0 p.mA BERLIN, May 27. Picard’s balloon was sighted from the Lake in the afternoon by means of powerful telescopes, south of Kochel, Lake Bavaria, and Vas sighted agajn six in the evening at a great heightabove Partenkirschin, where the Bavarian Alps are nine thousand feet high. Anxiety is beginning to he fejt by the public who are tremendously interested in the daring adventure, asking why he has not landed after thirteen hours, when he intended to only remain seven hours in the air. Picai’d was equipped with three parachutes, two to let down'“meteorological ‘instruments and the third fixed to the gondola which is detachable ' from the "balloon, enabling descent. , Latest report after nightfall states Picard has not descended.