FLIERS’ FATE STILL UNKNOWN

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 9

FLIERS’ FATE STILL UNKNOWN

FEARS FOR HINKLER AND MCINTOSH

N 0 TIDINGS come with passing days

TMPnp 6 " Today. p-ERE is sun no news of Mr. Bert Hinkler and Captain to India H a nri Cl J lto - h ; Who Set out 011 a from England to India, and anxiety as to their fate grows hourly.

ha ? been ab sent for 60 nour& at midnight on Thursday Their I eXhaUSted mtS hours Their pioneer route was over verv i } onel y stretches of country and a 1 W ° Uld “eanday^be* ;tore a message could reach England tdfe flight lled ° nly sufficient rations for ! It is considered that if they kept then* course they would certainly have been observed at some point on the route. Hinkler is such a skilful navigator that the possibility that he may have lost his direction is ruled out by the experts. The Russian authorities are searching the territory over which it is presumed they passed. A message from Karachi says an airplane passed there eaily this morning. If this is correct, their route will lie over the Sind Desert, where a decent would be dangerous. Royal Air Force machines are searching for the missing plane, which did not carry a wireless installation.— A. and N.Z. LANDING REPORTED Reed. 10.24 a.m. LONDON, Friday. A Lemberg newspaper reports that Mr. Bert Hinkler and Captain R. H. Mclntosh, flying from England to India, landed at Bialorynica, in Southern Poland, on Wednesday, and resumed their flight.—A. and N.Z. ANOTHER DELAY UNFAVOURABLE CONDITIONS NEW ZEALAND FLIGHT Received 9.2 a.m. SAN FRANCISCO, Friday. Captain F. A, Giles again postponed his departure on the New Zealand flight. He announced that he would not attempt to hop off to-day, after Captain Kingsford Smith’s monoplane Southern Cross had made two test trials on behalf of Giles to observe the atmospheric conditions, and reported these as unfavourable.—A. and N.Z. CROYDON TO CAPETOWN “MR.” CARBERRY SETS OUT By Cable.——Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 12.32 p.m. RUGBY, Fiday. Mr. Carberry, by which name Lord Carberry chooses to be known since he renounced his title to the peerage, left the Croydon airdrome to-day in a Fokker monoplane, accompanied by a mechanic, on a flight to Capetown. He hopes to accomplish the journey in record time, estimating that he will reach Cairo in four days and Capetown in a week.—A. and N.Z. Hi r!r -r *Ma*& *& &

COBHAM SETS OUT AFRICAN COAST SURVEY ALL-METAL FLYING-BOAT (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 12.32 p.m. RUGBY, Friday. RUGBY, Thursday. Sir Alan Cobham, who is accompanied by Lady Cobham, Captain Worrall, two engineers and a cinematograph operator, left Rochester to-day for his air survey of the African coastline. The huge all-metal flying-boat, heavily laden, proceeded up the Thames and flew low over London, where crowds cheered its passage. Then it went on to Reading and Southampton, where it will be moored for the night. To-morrow the flight will be resumed to Bordeaux. Sir Alan said the object was to gain data of the Cape to Cairo airway, and to investigate the possibility of operating giant flying boats from Capetown to England. If the route were to be operated regularly, one of the loads already promised was a ton of gold daily.— A. and N.Z. FLYING-BOAT CRUISE MACHINES AT KARACHI British Wireless—Press Assn Copyright Reed. 12.32 p.m. RUGBY, Friday. The four Royal Air Force flyingboats which are engaged on the great Empire cruise to Australia, via India and Singapore, and back to the Singapore base, arrived safely this morning in Karachi Harbour.—A. and N.Z. r’r rfc vr -Jr tU yr -?r rr re %Vr -I- '-X' i’A