ROUND THE WORLD FLIGHT

Otaki Mail, 13 January 1919, Page 4

ROUND THE WORLD FLIGHT

1... AN ; EXPEW'.^fiICIPATIONS.» ;j London, January 7. ! The "Daily .Chronicle" publishes: an J interview with Mr HoltKThonius, Direc.-: tor of the. Aircraft Manufacturing Comj I pany, whose directorate Major Bfanckcr has just joined. Mr Holt Thomas says: I!—"The air; journey to Australia can I. now be done at one' hundred miles per | hour, including stoppages. The speed j for the world journey will soon be 130' miles.an hour. A single airman would not fly all the way ,to New South Wales. | The first man would go to Paris, and would find another airman waiting ■ there. In five minutes the mail recep- ! taclc would be transferred to a second machine, which would resume the joijrnoy. A three-hundred mile trip worHd jbe sufficient for any one pilot. It will I be important to develop an air-cooled engine to :replaco the present water- i cooled engine, which becomes faulty in the tropics and in the Antarctic through the water either boiling or freezing. Tlic | trans-Atlantic flight should be accomj plished iu 1919, but no,seaplanes could ! stand the Atlantic rollers." j L__ 1 TRANS-ATLANTIC VENTURE. j AUSTRALIANS' INTENTION. '' London, January 7. 1< is likely that a 'party .''of Australian " living men will niakc an attempt to win the "Daily Mall's" £IO,OOO prize for the Trans-Atlantic flight. Men are now preparing to use a Handhy-Page ' machine for the task. . : .- | AUCKLAND TO WELLINGTON, r l Auckland. January 8. The nucleus of a fund as a prize for t a flight by seaplane from Auckland to Wellington has been provided by the ; Hon. A. M. Myers, who has offered to I donate £IOO towards the prize, his con<. ' ditions being that the Might must be' made in a New Zealand-built .seaplane ' by a member of the New Zealand Flyj ing School at Kohimarama, and that '•the flight is to be made in one day, two stops being allowed en route, Tis offer j hold* good for four months. , The offer has been made with a view to'stimulating interest in commercial j aviation and building of suitable [ machines for long-distance flying in, j Now Zealand. '