AVIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22986, 15 September 1936, Page 9

AVIATION

FLIGHT BY RUSSIANS LOS ANGELES TO MOSCOW MOSCOW, Sept. 13. The airman, Levanesky, and the navigator, Levchenko, completed a 12,000-mile flight from Los Angeles via Canada, Alaska, and Siberia. AMERICAN FLYERS TAKE OFF LONDON, Sept. 14. (Received Sept. 14, at 8 p.m.) Richman and Merrill took off from Southport at 3.5 a.m. Thousands cheered the flyers. Richman said they had already ordered a dinner of steak and chips in New York, and expected to eat it at 7 p.m. EMPIRE COMMUNICATIONS LONDON, Sept. 14. (Received Sept. 14, at 11 p.m.) The Daily Herald’s Brindisi correspondent says the failure of the Imperial Airways machine Satyras to arrive there from Alexandria on Sunday morning reveals a serious breakdown in Empire air communications. Army officers under orders to Palestine and India, and civil passengers for Australia and Africa, are temporarily stranded. It is officially stated that the Satyras was forced to returri to Alexandria owing to engine trouble. The Satyras is the only available seaplane capable of crossing the Mediterranean in all conditions. This section of the trans-Mediterranean service has been operating under the greatest difficulties for over a year. Overhauls are done piecemeal owing to disorganisation and it is impossible to lay up a machine without a total interruption of Empire services.