AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1931, Page 3

AVIATION

PLANE CRASHES. -EIGHT'KILLED. (Unitea Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright.) SOFIA, July 25. A French passenger aeroplane, proceding from Stamboul to Paris, caught fire and crashed in the Balkans. Eight of those ridio were aboard ;are dead, including four English people, THE PASSENGERS KILLED. LONDON, July 25. A Paris mesage states that- the passengers in the Balkan air crash were two Britishers from Smyrna, the Norwegian Consul-General at Constantinople, and an American man and woman. POLISH TRAGEDIES. THREE PLANES CRASH. WARSAW, Ju’y 25. During the Polish air manoeuvres, two machines collided. Three officers were killed. A rocket was sent up, signalling the remainder of the squadron to return. The rocket struck a third machine, which went on fire and crashed, one occupant being killed; Another was. injured. , .y[.i - MOLLISON’S ATTEMPT. TO REACH ENGLAND IN EIGHT DAYS. SYDNEY, July 26. J Mr J. A. Mollison hopped off at : Mascot at 8 a.m. yesterday 'for England. He hopes to make the journey in eight days. He intends leaving Wyndhnm for England at midnight on Wednesday, in an endeavour to establish a new record for the flight. Mollison made a previous attempt in June. He left Darwin on June 7 at midnight, but found the ’plane was overloaded. Coming down, he struck the fence at the end-of the aerodrome. Mollison jumped or fell out before the- ;’|)ldhe factually, crashed, and. was juninjuredi .. j. /The unftercjrrriage of the , ? machine,| the' wings* Itiiej ana the tail iwere in j crumpled ruins; damaged beyond- repair, ’.. /Mollison' on that-occasion.pj lined to to fly to England.; ia ;sbyfe)i . stay there a week,vrind;return’.oh .jttib! same schedule. »•; M'i , LONDON' July; 24. Stack i arid Chaplin alia; doi.ed the flight to Baghdad on July J, o\V pg to radiatorrjrouble.:;; " • ROUND ENGLAND RACE, i. MANY COMPETITORS RETIRE. v "LONDON, July 25. There are 41 entries for the King’s Gup air race, which will be flown tomorrow over a thousand mile corirse round England by amateur pilots in private machines..; i ~The..ryqnieji entrants'* include Lady Bailey. LONDON, July 25. Heavy rain and bad visibility throughout England caused numerous retirements in the first stage of the King’s Cup, including Lady Bailey, > Captain Guest, and H. R. Low (who was the scratch man.) ; Miss Winifred Brown, last year’s, winner, took off cheerfully, but was forced clown, and her machine was damaged. She was not hurt. RESULT OF THE RACE. LONDON, July ?5, Flying Officer Edwards, averaging 117 point eight miles per hour, .won the King’s . Cup, after a neck and neck race with Flight-Lieutenant Gibbon, who, averaging 101) miles an hour, finished three minutes behind Edwards, who was Miss Winifred Spoonei’s companion when. she. fell into the Mediterranean Sea in an -attempt at the Cape flight. ZEPPELIN’S'PROGRESS. ;* ■ LENINGRAD, July 25. The‘Graf Zeppelin has arrived here. RUGBY, July 24. The Duke of Gloucester flew to-dav in his private aeroplane to Livnpo<y » where he rode Curtain Two in the IV ltliens Welter 1 Plate for amatuer (riders. The Imperial Airways announce a speeding up on the Paris route, which .will reduce the time of the journey by twenty minutes.