Flying-Boat Cruise

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 179, 19 October 1927, Page 9

Flying-Boat Cruise

AIR MINISTER’S MESSAGE

VALUE OF EXPERIMENT By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, Tuesday. The Minister of Air, Sir Samuel Hoare. has telegraphed to Group-Cap-tain H. M. Cave-Brown-Cave, commanding the British flying-boats on their cruise to Australia, wishing him a successful flight, and adding that the flying-boats should play a great part in the development of Imperial air communication for defence and commercial purposes, as well as in showing how the distant parts of the Empire can be linked up.—A. and N.Z.

STEAM-DRIVEN PLANE

BRITISH INVENTOR’S CLAIM

TURBINE ENGINES LONDON, Monday. A British engineer, Captain W. P. Durtnall, claims to have invented a steam turbine for airplanes more economical, more powerful and, he says, lighter than the present engines. He says it eliminates noise and the risk of fire. Steam heaters in the cabin provide the heat for aerial cooking. Captain Durtnall says a plane equipped with his steam turbine would be capable of flying three times the present distances without descending for fuel. Five hundred horse power would enable the plane to reach a great height. The exhaust steam could be used again and again without condensing. The turbine would require only 10 gallons of water per 1,000 horse-power. —Sun.

THREE AIRMEN KILLED

TRAGEDY OF PARADE

BRAZILIAN FLIERS RIO DE JANEIRO, Tuesday. Three Brazilian aviators were killed during an aerial parade in honour of the French airmen, Lieutenants Costes and Lebrix, who have just completed a flight from Paris to Rio de Janeiro. The victims of the accident were flying at a tremendous speed 400 feet above the sea when their machine turned over and dropped, bursting into flames as it fell.—A. and N.Z.

FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA

RED ROSE AT MILAN ROME, Monday. Captain W. N. Lancaster and Mrs. Keith Miller, who left Croydon, England, on Thursday in the airplane Red Rose, en route to Australia, left Lyons, France, this morning and later arrived at Melengnano, nine miles south of Milan.—A. and N.Z. *

TRIP TO FAR EAST

LONDON, Monday. A British Imperial Airways pilot. Captain Robert H. Macintosh, is preparing to leave Upavon, Wiltshire, in a Fokker plane this week on a nonstop 4,000-miles flight to the Far East. Every available inch of his machine is devoted to the storage of petrol, of which Captain Macintosh will carry 750 gallons, sufficient for 45 hours. —A. and N.Z.