IN THE AIR.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 May 1919, Page 5

IN THE AIR.

o ATLANTIC FLIGHTS,

PICKLES ABANDONS ATTEMPT

LONDON, May 22.

Mr E. Pickles, the well-known Sydney airman, who intended to undertake the trans-Atlantic flight, interviewed to-day, stated that his wife has persuaded him to abandon the Atlantic flight in the interest of their infant son, owing to the fate of H. G. Hawker and Commander Grove.

SEARCHING FOR HAWKER

Received May 23, 8.10 a.m. LONDON, May 21

The Admiralty has ordered a thorough search for Hawker, regardless of expense. A large fleet of destroyers, tugs, and trawlers are scouring the immense triangular coa'st of Ireland and the apex three hundred miles out in the Atlantic. All available aeroplanes are co-operating. Bad weather prevents naval motors and launches participating.

WORLD’S LARGEST PLANE FINISHED.

\ WHAT- BERLIN ESCAPED

(Delayed in Transit.) Received 9.10 a.m. LONDON, May 14. The world’s largest aeroplane is finished and which was intended to bomb Berlin, has three principal planes and has six 450 h.p. engines, and was capable of a speed of 100 miles an hour. The fuselage is 80ft. across and carries 92 persons.