AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1933, Page 5

AVIATION

COBHAM'g NON-STOP FLIGHT,

POSSIBLY TO AUSTRALIA

(British Official TTtrefessJ

RUGBY, February 12.

Sir A. Cobham and Squadron-Leader Helmore, Royal Air Force, are making plans' for a long non-stop flight, possibly to Australia, with an aeroplane, which will be refuelled in the air during the journey. The machine is now under construcion at the works of Airspeed Ltd., of which firm Sir A. Cooham is a director. Helmore has been engaged for some years on fuel research at the Royal aircraft establishment. Neither the destination, npr. T the,,,xlate„pi r the flight, is yet settled.

PLANE WRECKAGE IDENTIFIED SYDNEY, February 13.

The mystery attached to the aeroplane parts washed, up at Jervis Bay last week ling been, solved. The Senior air craft inspector ipr the .Federal Government has identified them as the destroyed parts of a naval seaplane which were dumped overboard from the seaplane carrier Albatross.

ITALIAN PLANES FOR HUNGARY

SECRET FLIGHT EXECUTED

(Received thi B day at 9-30 a.in.) PARIS, February 13

T'lie “Echo” states that thirty-Wo military .aeroplanes were secretly flow* l fr-cm ! talv, and landed on the ‘emergency landing .ground at 'Szoed, in Hungary ( where they were dismantled and hidden.

The niachines flew on different dates •in groups of six and crossed Austria, at •eighteen •thousand feet in order to avoid observation They form, ed part of the total of forty-eight ordered from an Italian company.