ENGINE TROUBLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 978, 22 May 1930, Page 11

ENGINE TROUBLE

AMY JOHNSON HELD UP AT SOURABAYA MAY RESUME TODAY United P.A.—Bg Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 10.5 a.m. BATAVIA, W'ed. Miss Amy Johnson, who is engaged in a flight from England to Australia, was obliged to postpone her departure from Sourabaya for Bima, Sumbawa Island, until tomorrow owing to a defect in tbe magneto ol her machine. Members of the staff of the Roval Netherlands-East Indies Air Company worked all night overhauling the Moth airplane, but the magneto trouble was not overcome sufficiently to enable the flight to be resumed this morning. When Miss Johnson was informed of her bad luck she was keenly disappointed. A sporting flier, named De Bruyn, living near Sourabaya, who also possesses a Moth machine and already had sent a reserve propeller to the girl flier, agreed to dispatch also a new magneto, which is due at Sourabaya this afternoon. MAY LEAVE TODAY As it will then be too late for Miss Johnson to leave today her departure for Bima has been provisionally fixed for tomorrow morning. A message from Sourabaya this afternoon stated that the repairs to the magneto had progressed so far that Miss Johnson’s airplane was to bo given a trial run, and, it successful, her departure tomorrow morning was assured. It is reported from Loudon that, on behalf of Miss Johnson, her father has accepted the British Empire Union’s invitation for a great public luncheon as a welcome home after her return from Australia.

ON THE WING AGAIN LEFT FOR ATAMBOEA WANTS TO FORGET IT SYDNEY, Today. Amalgamated Wireless has received advice that Miss Amy Johnson left Sourabaya at 8.45 o’clock this morning to fly straight to Ataruboea, but if en route it appears her motor is not as smooth as she expects, she will land at Bima. A message from London says the “Daily Express” Sourabaya correspondent interviewed Miss Amy Johnson, who said “I will never do it again, but perhaps I could stay in Australia a long time and forget all the troubles of the flight, and only remember the happy hours spent there.”

Miss Johnson’s record to date is as follows: —- May s—Left Croydon and arrived Vienna. May 6—Arrived Constantinople. May 7 —Arrived Aleppo. May B—Arrived Bagdad. May 9 —Arrived Bunder Abbas. May 10—Arrived Karachi. May 11—Arrived Allahabad. May 12 —Arrived Calcutta. , May 13 —Arrived Insein, near Rangoon. May 14 and 15—Delayed for repairs. May 16—Arrived Bangkok. May 17 —Arrived Singora. May IS—Arrived Singapore. May 19 —Arrived Tjornal, Java. May 20 —Arrived Samarang and Sourabaya, Java. May 21—Delayed for repairs at Sourabaya.