AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1932, Page 5

AVIATION

STUNTSTOPPED A DELIBERATE CRASH. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) MARSEILLES, Feb. 26. A big crowd gatheied in expo tat.o of thrills from watching a ue.morale .crash by the French airmail, Sauvant, who is aged 28. He had promised to escape from the crash unscathed. The people were disappointed, as the police, acting under orders, removed a wheel from the plane, and prevented tlie demonstration.

Souvant some time ago invented a double-cased aeroplane, which he intended to ignite and crash 3000 feet to earth in the Alpes Maritimes. Lie declared that tlie occupants could escape without injury from the inner case when the fire was extinguished. He has satisfactorily experimented with a miniature machine, in which lie placed a lamb. He also dopped an ostrch egg, containing a hen’s egg from a height of 375 feet. The hen's egg was not broken.

COLONEL BRIN3MEAD RETURNS WELCOMED IN AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, March 7. Colonel Brinsmead, Controller of -Civil Aviation in Australia, who was gravely injured in the Dutch air mail plane smash near Bangkok, reached Sydney aboard l'/ie Nieuw Zealand, attended by a young aviator and petty officer from Melbourne. Colonel Brinsmead is a pathetic figure compared to his former self. He is partially crippled, his eyesight and speech are affected, but he is able to whisper: He is much improved and benefited by the sea trip from Java, and expects in a few months that he will be nearly right. Mrs Brinsmead met him at Brisbane. A large number of flying men cordially welcomed the patient at the ship’s side, and an aerial escort was provided J.ie vessel prior to berthing.

LADY CHAYTON. FLIES TO VIENNA. LONDON, March 6. Lady Chayton, the wife of Sir Edmund Chayton, has begun an original flight to Australia, with R. Richards as pilot. According the fjie “Daily Express,” she hopes, upon her arrival in tr'alia,' to "make ‘enough ‘money' ‘by' lee"' tuning on clothes fashions, to enable her family to resume residence at Witton Castle, Durham. VIENNA, March 6. Lady Chayton has arrived from London.

AIR DEVELOPMENTS.

SOVIET AS FLYING NATION

LONDON. March 7

The Soviet intends ito spend 20 millions on civil aviation in 3932. says the Moscow correspondent of the “NewsChronicle.” It is doubling the number of commercial aeroplanes, making 13,000 dighf.s. testing 56,000 miles of new routes, and beginning the fust ligid airship base. Russia will build big Zeppelins in 1933.

Seventy-five per cent, of the students in the flying schools belong to the Communist party or the Young Communists’ League. The proportion of women students i s approaching 20 per cent.,