FLIERS ON THE WAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 927, 21 March 1930, Page 11

FLIERS ON THE WAY

PIPER AND KAY AT JAVA ON LONG FLIGHT TROUBLE ON JOURNEY United P.A.—By Telegraph Copyright \ Reed. 11.5 a.m. BATAVIA, Thursday. Flying-Officers Piper and Kay, the New Zealand airmen who are on a flight from England to Australia, arrived at Weltevreden, Java, today. They will leave for Sourabaya tomorrow. A message from Singapore says because the airmen landed on the Royal Air Force ground adjoining the naval base, 18 miles from Singapore town, few -were aware of their arrival on Wednesday evening or their departure this morning for Muntok. Bad luck was encountered in India and was continued after they left Calcutta. As they were flying off the Burma Coast, engine trouble forced a descent on the small uninhabited island of Borongo, near Akyab, where they were delayed for three weeks, working oil repairs all day in the tropic sun and sleeping at nights in the machine, as there was no shelter. Despite these adversities they were most optimistic, though tired out, when they arrived at Singapore. SNOW STOPS PARKERSON LONDON, Thursday. Mr. C. P. Parkerson, the New Zealand airman, went to the Lympne airdrome at 5 a.m. yesterday hoping to start for Australia, but was prevented by a heavy snowstorm. He proposes to vary the route by following the * Rhone Valley to Marseilles, and thence to Rome, instead of flying over the Alps.