FLIGHT FAILURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 214, 29 November 1927, Page 11

FLIGHT FAILURE

END OF TRANSATLANTIC PLAN BENT PROPELLER By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Monday. “It’s all over now; we’ve bent our last propeller,” said Madame Dillenz, stepping ashore from the Junkers seaplane at the Azores. So there is another transatlantic failure. The German machine, in which it was proposed to fly to Brazil, was not able to rise, although the conditions were favourable.—A. and N.Z. PLEASURE CRUISE GREAT AIR LINER TOUR OF WORLD LONDON, Sunday. The Silver Wing, a de luxe eightton three-motored Imperial Airways liner, will leave Croydon on January 31 on the world’s first aerial pleasure cruise. The cruise will occupy 35 days, and will cover 5,500 miles. Southern France, Spain, Africa and Italy will be visited. The passengers will have every comfort in the accommodation, and there will be motor-car trips at the stopping places. There will be no night flying. The 12 passengers will pay 435 guineas each, and may carry 001 b of luggage.—A. and N.Z. LANCASTER DOWN FORCED LANDING AT BUSHIRE BASRA, Sunday. Captain W. N. Lancaster, who is flying to Australia with Mrs. Keith Miller as i passenger, was forced to descend at Bushire owing to trouble with one of the magnetos of his airplane. The Royal Air Force authorities are sending a substitute magneto by air.—A. and N.Z.-Sun.

PILOTLESS PLANE

SUCCESSFUL TESTS LONDON, Sunday. The “News of the World” says an airplane, without a pilot, has made 11 successful flights from England to France under wireless control.—A. and N.Z. CARBERY AT MALTA MALTA, Sunday. Mr John Carbery, which name has been assumed by Lord Carbery, has reached Malta on his flight to Africa. —A. and N.Z.-Sun.