AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1931, Page 6

AVIATION

WORLD FLIERS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright, i

NEW YORK,- July 1. Thy flyer,s completed their world flight in eight days, fifteen hours and idftv-oik* mimnes. Their actual flying time was four days ten hours and eight minutes. The police lines on the Roosevelt Field gave way as the flyers were en route from their plane to the Administration Building. Excitement ruled supreme. There were numerous fist fights as the police, with their night sticks, attempted to force a way for the flyers, who finally got away from the crowd in a car with a police mo'or cycle escort. The correct arrival time was 7.47 J o'clock.

PLANE TESTING

381 MILKS AN 'HOUII

(Received this day at 9.25 a.m) (LONDON, .Inly 2. The “Times - ’ aeronautical expert states that while testing one of a batch of new British Fairy Firefly fighter aeroplanes built for 'Belgian air force, flight, lieutenant Staniland dived from a height of 22,000 feet and reached a speed of 384 miles an hour at 15,000 feet. This is believed to represent the greatest velocity ever reached voluntarily with an aeroplane. He continued the dive to 'eight thousand, when he began gently to flatten out, and got on on even keel before he reached four thousand. Later lie cl oil bed to 19,750 feet in nine minutes.