AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1932, Page 2

AVIATION

HAMILTON’S FLY. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) •ROME, Feb. 19. Flying-Officers Hamilton and Coup laud were forced down at Crosseto and were detained by the police until they explained their reason for landing. All j!;ope of tnc r getting a new record for the journey from {London to Darwin is now believed to have gone. They took off from Crosseto and hrndod at Home, arriving fifteen hour s late. They later left for Athens. Telling the story of their forced landing, they said that the machine dropped like a U.one for 1003' feet after passing Genoa, and the contents of the ’plane were hurled against the ceiling, stunning the pilot. Hamilton recovered and climbed and swerved to avoid a snowclad hilltop, and landed in a deserted emergency flying field at Crosseto, where they spent the night. HAMILTON OVERDUE.

ATHENS, Feb. 20. There is anxiety here at the fact that Hamilton is overdue AIR PAGEANT. INVERCARGILL, Feb. 20. The Southland air pageant opened in fine but 'utfndy weather. Twenty-five planes, piloted by the best-known aviators in the Dominion, participated. After a formation flight over the city, the first heats in the Aerial Derby were flown. Resuts:— First heat—C. M. Duthie (Wellington) 1, Is. G-. Olsen (Otago) 2, A. V. Jury CfWairorapa) 3.. Second heat—T. W. White (New Zealand Airways) 1, John Smith (Southland) '2. Landing Competition—D. Campbell (Otago) 1, S. Mechani (Wellington) 2, E. Lixevton (Wairarapa) 3. FATAL CRASH IN FRANCE, IRISH AIRMAN KILLED. PARIS, February 22. A Marseilles message states that a young Irish airman, M.G. Seally, who left Dublin on February 17th, for Ceylon, in a tiny monoplane, on a secret mission, on behalf of the Irish Hospital Trust, was caught in an air pocket near Marseilles, and crashed, and he died later in the hospital. STILL MISSING. HAMILTON AND COUPLAND. ATHENS, February 22. There is still no news of Hamilton and Coupland, who were flying to Australia and were on the way from Rome to Athens.