AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1931, Page 6

AVIATION

FIRST REFUELLING. Press Association-- liaecii u telegraph. —Copyright ■/ FAIRBANKS, (Alaska), July 9.’ iiobbius and Jones in their monolie .11 ielort .. AY orth /’■ ai*rivocl here at 7.33 o’clock on Wednesday after a journey of seventeen hours and thirty-six minutes from Seattle.

They successfully made contact with the refuelling plane at an altitude of one thousand feet, and they took aboard two hundreds gallons o gaso- .. ■ t ■ line. *

Loth ol't the planes then (low westward down the Tanan Vnlcy.

The refueller plane will probably land at Solomon for more gas, and will then accompany the “Fort Worth” to Siberia for a second refuelling.

FORT,WORTH FORCED DOWN

INABILITY TO REFUEL

NOME, (Alaska), July 9

Fortwofth passed here at 2.10 a.m. to day, completing twenty-one hundred miles. • Refuelling contacts were made between Fairbanks and Solomon. As the ’plane was slowed'down by poor visibility; 1 and low ceiling the ’plane beaded into a cloudbank over Behring Sea. Though clouds are hanging low, the whather is improving.

A message from .Solomon (Alaska) states Fortworth’s 'flight ended there at 3.50 aim. to-day when unfavourable weather and the inability to make the contact for the long dash, forced the fliers down. Bumpy conditions made it impossible for tlie Ships to- establish contact, long enough. The fliers are convinced the weather prospects over the hazardous Behring Sea are bad.