SOME FLIGHT RECORDS.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 7 September 1918, Page 3

SOME FLIGHT RECORDS.

1000 MILE NON-STOP KUN. Tweiity-eight different uses of air- ' craft in military service abroad were i listed recently by an aviation authority, of which eleven were in conncction with army work and sevoiftoen in naval scrviec, writes R. Cvirtis in Motor Life. This attests a degree of versatility which the lay mind will hardly associate with aircraft.

The record for sustained flight is held by an Italian, Captain Laureati, who flew last summer from Turin to Naples and back without landing, a distance of 1043 miles. A few weeks latCT the laaine aviator, aecompanicd by a mechanic, flew from Turin to London, a trip of just under 700 miles, between '» eight in the morning and throe in the ' afternoon. Crossing the Alps at an , altitude of nearly 12,000 ft was one of the features of this trip. The crossing of the English .Channel presented no difficulties, and it is being done continuously by British airplanes and German aerial raiders. We wore recently reminderi of one of the'long distance flights made in the early tit-ys of the war through the es-•'!p-p« from a German prison of the daring French officer, who made it. This trip was from Franco over Berlin, where printed matter was dropped, asd then on toward the Russian lines, the aviator being forced to land within ten miles of liis goal and safety.'