AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1932, Page 5

AVIATION

SYDNEY TO LONDON

YOUNG AIRMAN STARTS OUT.

(Australian Press Association.)

SYDNEY, 31 ay 30. An airman, named .Janies* Vicir, 2*l years of age, set out from Sydney today on a night to Loudon, via Darwin. lie is using a reconditioned Gypsy Moth, lifted with a neyv engine.

A ITEM FT ED PACIFIC FLIGHT

AIRMAN RETURNS TO PORT!

/SEATTLE, May 29. Browne took oif for Tokio ;it 0.20 a.m. but returned after seven hours, due to a. broivcin ’.rudder control, which caused the ship to vibrate badly. He is planning to refuel over the airport on Monday, for a re-start. Browne said that the oii tank broke as ho was cruising northwards, ;iear the, north end of Vancouver Island. He was blinded for a while by the hot oil. and almost crashed because he way flying low. The rudder control was broken, when the tail assemblage raked a tree, as he was trying to climb after leaving the airport here.

MRS BRUCE’S VENTURE,

RECORD TO BE ATTEMPTED

RUGBY, May 29,

Mrs Victor Bruce, with her husband, left Croydon yesterday for Gibraltar, where she will take over the giant allBritish plane, in which she will attempt to set up a new world’s refuelling endurance record. In her attempt on the record, she will try to remain in the air for a month. Her husband will be the relief pilot. The machine, which is fitted with three 120 horse-power engines, is a six-seater cabin monoplane flying boat, with landing wheels for use in emergency. It is intended that fresh supplies of fuel oil and food will be supplied twice daily, while in flight, from an attendant aeroplane, by means of a cord.