AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1932, Page 5

AVIATION

A NEW RECORD

NON-STOP FLIGHT OVER STATES.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

LOS ANGELES, August 24

Mrs Amelia Earhart. Putnam (first woman to fly the Atlantic solo) has to-day hopped .off in the same, monoplane in whiqh she crossed the Atlantic on a non-stop flight across the United States. This , has never befpi;e |i ,been done by a woman. Her routers across the mountains, and the desert of New Mexico, and over Ohio to Newark, Now Jersey.

TRANS-CONTINENTAL RECORDS

MRS PUTjNAM IS SUCCESSFUL,

(Received this clay at 9.25 a.m; NEWARK (New Jersey), Aug. 25

Mrs Amelia -Eatrhart Putnam landed at 1d.28 a.m., to-day from Los Angeles, having completed the first trans-Con-tinental non-stop flight by a woman, in 19 hours 7 rfii’nute's. She also won the dlsfallce flight record for woman of 2,530 milea. The, record wa, B previously held by Miss Ruth Nichols with 2,000 miles, from Oakland to Louisville (Kentucky) last year,

Mrj Putnam, who was very tired, wjas nearly mobbed iby the crowd whose anxiety was increased by .. the fact that she was (reported only once during the entire trip. “It was a beautiful trip',” she said. ,‘*lf I had had tlds weather on my first attempt, I would have broken the record then.’b She flew mostly at ten thousand feet, and followed the airlines, cutting the corners a bit.

THE SCANDINAVIAN AIRMEN.

NARROWLY ESCAPE DEATH. } . ST. JOHN’S (Newf’dland), Aug. 24. The Scandinavian airmen, Solberg and Petersen narrowly escaped death in their plane’s crash at Darby’s Harbour. ' This' is shonw in the details brought by Douglas Fraser, a St. John’s aviator, after a flight to tho scene of the crash.

Solberg' told Fraser that they had encountered a rain and wind storm. They climbed to a height of five thousand feet to escape it. They then encountered a snow storm, and their engine stalled. They next volplaned but . their ship went into a nose-dive, and fell into "the harbour. They were ‘rescued by fishermen, The plane was wrecked.

new service to start,

F&OM PALESTINE TO iRAfI,

RUGBY, Augiwt S 3,

A new desert air service between Palestine and Iraq is to be operated from September 15th by the Imperial Airways, a plane leaving east-bound from Rameleh to Baghdad each Monday, enabling passengers between Europe’and Iraq to make the journey by a combination of air, rail and sea. Thus travellers from London, will be able to fly to Paris; in an air liner, proceed by rail to Trieste or Brindisi, and thence by sea ta Jaffa in Palestine, where motor-cars will connect with the air station at Rameleh. The service will be quicker than the surface, route as the means of substituting a seven and* a-quarter hours’ flight across the desert for a two-days’ journey.

lee AND bochron HOP OFF,

HARBOUR GRACE, Aug. 25. and Bochkon, hopped off for Oslo at 5.31 a.m. to-day with sufficient gasoline for 37 hours The fight is expected to take 30 hours. Weather reports are good. The doors of the cabin have been sealed, and emergency gasoline tanks installed. A hole was cut through,f<he roof as a means of entrance and exit. In the case of being forced down they hope to empty the gasoline cans to give buoyancy until the motor can be cut from the plane with a hacksaw, which they are carrying for that purpose.

“A SCOTSMAN’S PARADISE.”

(Received this dav at, 11.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 25

Several speakers at a luncheon today in honour of Mollison, referred to the fact that he had but 67 cents when he landed in Canada. The flier responding, Said: “I still have the same sixty-seven cents, so I think New York must he a real Scotsman’s paradise.”