FORCED INTO SEA

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 938, 3 April 1930, Page 11

FORCED INTO SEA

AMERICAN AIRMEN ON BERMUDA FLIGHT SIXTY MILES SHORT Reed. 9.15 a.m. NEW YORK, Wed. A Stinson monoplane, carrying a crew of three, including the navigator, Yaucy, took off for Bermuda for a prize of £5,000 offered for the Bermuda flight.

They had difficulty, in navigating to a tiny island in the Atlantic, which has previously repelled aviators.

The airmen radioed that they have landed on a calm sea approximately 60 miles north of Bermuda, where they will remain throughout the night, and resume the flight in the morning. The fliers are in no danger. Reed. noon. OTTAWA, Today.

A second report received at Montreal states that Mr. Yancy’s monoplane reached Bermuda safely, coming in under tow of the motor-launch which picked her up near the coast.

Lewis Yancy, with another American airman, Roger Q. Williams, was concerned in a crash last, year. On Juno 14 their plane, the Green Flash, sped down the heath in Maine on a projected 4,750-mile flight to Rome, but tho machine had travelled only onethird of a mile when it tore into the soft sands, and nearly overturned. Both wheels were torn off, but the men were uninjured. The propelleiwas broken, also, and the engine damaged. NEARING SYDNEY PIPER AND KAY IN STORM SYDNEY, Wednesday. Flying-Officer H. L. Piper and C. Kay, tho New Zealand airmen, who flew from England to Darwin, and are now on their way to Sydney, left Longreach, North Queensland, at 6 49 a.m. today. They arrived at Bourke, New South Wales, and will leave there for Narromine tomorrow morning. Local advices state that a terrific dust storm prevails out west. Nevertheless, the fliers expect to reach Sydney tomorrow afternoon.

ENGLAND TO AMERICA NEW YORK, Tuesday. A message from Paris, Maine, says Captain Harry Lyon, who was navigator in the Southern Cross on its transpacific flight, states that an airplane is now being built in California in which he expects to fly from England to America early this summer. Mrs. Keith Miller and Captain W. N. Lancaster, who flew from England to Australia together in 1927, are to be Captain Lyon’s companions in the venture. ROUND AUSTRALIA TRIO SYDNEY, Wednesday. Three Sydney airmen, Messrs FTank Bardsley, Reginald Annabel, and K. Wedgwood, propose to begin a flight around Australia tomorrow. Each flier will use his own Gipsy Moth airplane.