From America to New Zealand

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 157, 23 September 1927, Page 9

From America to New Zealand

AIRMAN IN LONE FLIGHT By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright.

Reed. 9.5 a.m. DETROIT, Thursday. Captain Frederick Giles, the Australian airman, hopped off on Thursday morning for Chicago, where he will remain one day, resuming then his flight to Wellington. He is using a single-passenger Bluebird plane. ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA ROYAL AIR FORCE TRY (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 11.30 a.m. RUGBY, Thursday. Plans have been made for the Royal Air Force 25,000-mile flight to Singa-

pore and Australia, to start from Cattewater, Plymouth, on October 17. Group-Captain Cave-Brown-Cave will be in command, and his assistant will be Squadron-Leader Liveock, who has already made the journey to arrange suitable stations for the aircraft en route.

Four all-metal Southampton-Napier flying-boats will he used for the flight. When the British machines reach Australia they will be joined by two flying-boats of the same type which have been built in this country for the Australian Air Force, and these will accompany them round Australia The flight to Australia has been arranged in order to gain experience wi flying-boats on mobile bases away from a fixed base. —A. and N.Z. SCHNEIDER CUP AIR RACE AT VENICE BRITISH EXPERTS PLEASED (British Official Wireless.J Reed. 10.52 a.m. RUGBY, Thursday. Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Secretary for Air, arrived at Venice after an eight and a-half hours' flight from England. He will witness the Schneider Cup race. Reports from Porto di Lido, Venice, the starting point of the Schneider Cup seaplane race on Sunday, state that interest in the event is increasing. The competitors made trial flights yesterday under perfect conditions. Two of the British machines were in the air all the morning. They attained high speeds and pleased experts. The British airmen deny reports to the effect that their machines can reach a speed of 325 miles an hour. They say these rumours are guesswork. Not one of the trial flights has been over a measured mile. The Italian competitors complain that their engines are not working at the expected speed. Sunday’s race will be a most severe test. The machines must make seven circuits of a 30-mile triangular course.—A. and N.Z.