AVIATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 7 January 1931, Page 5

AVIATION

PLIGHT ACROSS ATLANTIC

(United Press Association— By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright)

ROME, 6th January. Balbo’s seaplanes which are Hying across the Atlantic, left Bolama for Port Natal, Brazil. A FURTHER REPORT (Received 7th January. 8.45 a.m.) FERANDO DA NORONTHA (Brazil), 6th January. Six ’planes of Balbo’s trans-Atlantic fleet passed this island, 125 miles from the mainland, at 2.35 this afternoon. Three more ’planes passed a few minutes later. (Received 7th January, 9.5 a.m.) FERNANDO DA NORONHA. 6th Jan. The tenth and eleventh ’planes followed nearly an hour after the first group. ONE ’PLANE DOWN (Received 7th January, 9.5 a.m.) RIO DE JANEIRO, 6th January. A National Telegraph dispatch says that one of the Italian planes is down owing to motor trouble at sea off San Pedro. The ’plane was taken in tow by an Italian cruiser. AT NATAL HARBOUR (Received 7th January, 11.40 a.m.) NATAL (Brazil), 6th January. Ten Italian ’planes landed in Natal harbour this afternoon, the first four completing the flight from Boloma, West Africa, in seventeen hours fifteen minutes. AMY JOHNSON’S TASK SOVIET GOVERNMENT COOPERATES (Received 7th January 12.10 p.m.) MOSCOW, 6th January. The Air Department, including experts on northern flights, conferred and drew up the route which will be recommended to Amy Johnson to take via Kajan, Omsk, ‘Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Chita, Harbin, Mukden and Pekin. They consider the flight would be possible if the motor of the aeroplane were sufficiently heated, and have ordered landing fields to be prepared and stores of petrol deposited throughout the. route.

ENDURANCE RECORD (Received 7th January. 11.40 a.m.) LOS ANGELES, 6th January. Edna May Cooper, the film actress and aviatrix, rind Bobbie Trout, a l-<os Angeles girl flier, broke the women’s world endurance refuelling record by flying continuously for forty-two hours sixteen minutes. FLIGHT POSTPONED (Received 7th January, 2.10 p.m.) DARWIN, This Day. Several parties arrived at the aerodrome at daybreak to farewell Matthews. Word was received later that the trip- had been postponed and that lie might start to-morrow.