Italian Aviators Smash All Records

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 399, 6 July 1928, Page 1

Italian Aviators Smash All Records

7,000-MILE NON-STOP TRIP TWO Italian airmen have shattered all air records with a, 7,000-mile non-stop flight from Rome to Brazil. (United l*.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian j P.A.—United Service)

Received 9.5 a.m. RIO DE JANEIRO, Thursday. The Italian airmen, Ferrari and Delprete, landed at 7.5b' on Thursday night on a beach near Natal, in the Rio Grande del Norte State. They flew from Rome, 7,000 miles away. A Rome cablegram of July 3 read as follows: The Italian Air Ministry announces that Signor Ferrari will leave Rome this evening on the most daring flight yet attempted His aim will be to reach South America. This entails a non-stop flight of 7,000 miles in 55 to 60 hours.

The airman will use a 600 horse-power Savoia machine capable of flying 150 miles an hour, with a flying range of 65 hours. Another of July 5 read: The Italian airman, Captain Ferrari, who is flying from Rome to South America direct with another pilot, Delprete, passed Gibraltar at 5.15 a.m. yesterday. He sent a wireless message later saying that he was 350 miles north of the Cape Verde Isles at 8 p.m. yesterday. The longest similar flight ever made was by Chamberlin and Levine, who flew 3,923 miles non-stop from New York to Eisleben, Germany. Lindbergh’s Atlantic flight was 3,639 miles non-stop, and Byrd’s was 3,600 miles. The longest lap of Kingsford Smith’s Pacific flight was the 3,180 miles between Hawaii and Fiji.