AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1931, Page 5

AVIATION

NON-STOP .PACIFIC FLIGHT

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

TOKYO, May 28,

Thomas Ash, the airman, whose previous exploit was‘cabled on April 17th, took off from Tachikawa for the Sanushiro Beach,, near Amori, Thence he will to-morrow begin a non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean, hoping thus to win a fifty thousand yen prize offered by the Tokyo paper “Asahi” to the first airman to accomplish this achievment. AMERICAN’S RECORD. NEW YORK. May 28. News from Jacksonville Bench (Florida) states that the airman ]>e« Brossy landed to-night after flying eighty-four hours thirty-three minutes or nine hours and ten minutes better than the former record. AIRMAN' MISSING. IN NEW GUINEA JUNGLE. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m) SYDNEY, May 30. A report from Neyj Guinea states Pilot J. L. Trist employed by New Guinea airways transport services between the coast and goldfields, is missing. It is believed he made a forced landing in the jungle but the aeroplane contains plenty of provisions and water. Natives are searching... for the plane.

A QUICK FLY. (Received this day, at. 9.25 a.m) LONDON, May 29. Pilot Officer John Grierson has arrived at Lvmpne after a solo flight from Karachi in 4£ days, in a second hand Gjpsy moth. He was on leave from India, and .was determined , to reach home in the quickest method.

AFTER A RECORD. ■ ■ —~ LONDON.. May 29. Stack and Chaplin are setting out at dawn in an attempt for a record six days to . India and return. The distance is ben. thousand miles.