AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1932, Page 5

AVIATION

PLANS FOR FLIGHT BY ELLSWORTH AND BALCHEN. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LOS ANGELES, October 19. When inspecting the new monoplane for their Antarctic exploration with Sir H. Wilkins, Messrs Lincoln Ellsworth and Brent Bait-hen outlined their plans for a 2,900 miles non-stop flight from Boss Sea base to Weddell Sea, and return. Probably it will be in mid-December of next year. They plan to sail to Dunedin, New Zealand, in August next year. Then they will sail aboard a Norwegian motor-ship to the Ros.s Sea base from which they start the flight. Because of the impossibility of making a base at Weddell Sea, it is necessary to make it a non-stop return flight. They said that Sir Hubert Wilkins may accompany them U the Ross Sea base in the hope that he may solve the geographic problem: “‘What is the Antarctic?”

FROM ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA. COMMERCIAL FLIGHT PLANNED. LONDON, Oct, ID. The “Daily Herald” says that three ex-R.A.F. officers are planning a commercial flight from London to Port Darwin in five days, arriving there on ’Xmas Day. Thence they intend to tour Australia and also New Zealand. They then hope to cross to the United States. They intend to carry fifty samples of British goods, which they will exhibit at every stopping place. “SPIRIT OF FUN” AT JAVA. SYDNEY, Oct. 19. Advice has been received that the monoplane “Spirit of Fun” arrived at Bali, Java, yesterday, and that to-day she is en route to Singapore,

AIR SERVICE WITH y AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, October 19. It, is understood tha-t the Inter-De-partment Committee, which inquired into the establishment, of an EnglandAustralia air service,, has recommended to tlhe Minister of Defence that the offer of the Royal Dutch Airlines to carry without subsidy, mails to London, from either Wyndh-am or Darwin, the surcharge being 2s per article, should not be accepted. Another proposal Jras,, been ~./ subpiii>, ted by three large - Australian aviation companies.