FLIGHT TO NEW ZEALAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 202, 15 November 1927, Page 9

FLIGHT TO NEW ZEALAND

EARLY START BY GILES GOOD WEATHER AWAITED By Cable.—Preaa Association. — Copyright. Received 9.55 a.m. SAN FRANCISCO, Mon. Captain F. A. Giles, the Australian airman, who has prepared for a flight to Wellington, New Zealand, says he will hop off to-morrow weather permitting.—A. and N.Z. OCEAN FLIERS MEDAL FOR LINDBERGH Reed. 9.55 a.m. WASHINGTON, Mon. President Coolidge presented Colonel Lindbergh, the transatlantic flier, with the Hubbard Medal, at a luncheon for numerous ocean fliers.—A. and N.Z. FLIER DECORATED ENGLAND TO CAPETOWN RUGBY, Sunday. A Royal Air Force Cross has been bestowed on Captain R. R. Bentley, of the South African Air Force, in recognition of the distinguished service rendered by him to aviation by his recent flight in a light airplane from England to Capetown. MAKING AIR SAFE SLOTTED WING DEVICE British Wireless—Press Assn.—Copyright RUGBY, Sunday. The Secretary of State for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, and a party of technical experts from the Air Ministry, will make exhaustive tests of the new Handley-Page automatic slotted wing device at Cricklewood on Friday. This device, in its present form, is said to render it practically impossible for an airplane to stall —the most prevalent cause of disaster. In its original form of some years ago the device was operated at will, but the latest development makes it automatic. Experts consider it to be the most important step forward in aeronautical design since the war.—A. and N.Z.