ONLY SLENDER HOPES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 140, 3 September 1927, Page 1

ONLY SLENDER HOPES

MISSING MONOPLANE NO TRACE OF ST. RAPHAEL By Gable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Received 9.35 a.m. OTTAWA, Friday. HOPE has virtually been abandoned for the safety of the monoplane St. Raphael which is now many hours overdue. A constant vigil was continued, hut ships and radio stations report no trace of the plane.

A LANDING is believed to be highly improlmble, as the plane would first be compelled to pass somewhere through a chain of 35 radio stations. Experts ! declare that destruction would be certain if a landing on ice was attempted. The only hope remaining is that the fliers were picked up by a fishing vessel without radio equipment. Rumours from other sources proved to be unfounded. Very cold weather, fog, a cloudy sky, and northeast winds prevailed during the night. The plane’s petrol supply would have given out at midnight on Thursday. The monoplane carried the British airmen, Captain Hamilton and LieutColonel Minehin, with the Princess Loewensteiu-Werth'eim.—A. and N.Z. LEVINE TO SET OUT MORE ATLANTIC FLIGHTS Reed. 11.35 a.m. LONDON, Friday. Charles Levine, the American millionaire, is definitely flying to America on Saturday, if the weather is favourable.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. Received 12.20 p.m. ST. JOHN (Quebec), Friday. The monoplane f Royal Windsor, which is attempting a flight from Windsor, Ontario, to Windsor, England, and which was forced to descend here through one of the wings tiring, will hop off for England to-morrow morning.—A. and N.Z.

Received 12.20 a.m. CARIBOU (Maine), Friday. The airplane Sir John Carling, which descended here in the course of its flight from London, Ontario, to London, England, has not yet resumed its flight. The time of departure is not decided. —A. and N.Z. PARIS, Friday. Two airmen, Givon and Corbu, started at 6.30 a.m. to-day on a flight from Le Bourget to New York, in the biplane Bluebird, but they struck a fog, and returned to Le Bourget at 8 o’clock. The Bluebird is an immense Farman Goliath plane 15 feet high, with two 450-horse-power engines mounted horizontally, and giving the appearance of a flying-boat, except that the fuselage takes the place of the hull. The Bluebird landed after some difficulty.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. ROUND WORLD FLIGHT AIRMEN LEAVE TURKEY CONSTANTINOPLE, Friday. The American aviators, Messrs. William Brock and Edward Schlee, who are attempting to fly round the world In the monoplane Pride of Detroit, were detained at Constantinople again yesterday, awaiting formal permission to leave Turkey. The difficulty was overcome this morning and the airmen left for Bagdad. —A. and N.Z.