AVIATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 January 1919, Page 5

AVIATION.

FROM LONDON TO CAPETOWN, ARRANGEMENTS FOR TRIAL iia FLIGHT.

Scceived Jan. 8, 5.5 pjn. j Capetown, Jah. 7. Captain Shortridge has arrived at Pretoria to make arrangements for' a trial flight and prepare landing-places between Broken Hill and Capetown. • A second party has gone to German East Africa, and a third is working tt the south to complete tho line of communication between London and Cape* town.

It is estimated that the flying houri will, roughly, be one hundred. The stopping-places in the southern sector will be Broken Hill, Victoria Fall?, Palapye, Pretoria, Beaufort West, and Capetov/n.vJiouter.

LONG-DISTANCE JOURNEYS.

WITHIN THE RANGE OF. PRACTIC ABILITY.

Received Jan. 8, 840 p.m.

London, Jan. 7.

The Daily Chronicle interviewed Jvlr. Holt Thomas, director ot the Aircraft Manufacturing Company, whose directorate iiajoi Brancker has just joined. iMr. Holt Thomas says the air journey to Australia can now be done at a hundred miles an hour, including stoppages. The speed for a world journey would soon be 130 miles hourly. A single air man will not fly all the way to New South Wales, but the first man to go to Paris will find anothor airman waiting there, Fn five minutes tho mail receptacle will be transferred'to the see ond machine, which will resume the journey. A three-hundred mile trip i* sufficient for one pilot. It is important to develop an air-cooled engine to replace the present water-cooled engine, which becomes faulty in the tropics and Antarctic through the water either boiling or freezing. The Trans-Atlantic flight should Ibe accomplished in 1919, but no seaplane could stand the Atlantic rollers;— Cable Assoc.

THE TRANS-ATLANTIC FUGST.

Received Jan. S, 7.20 p.m. London, Jan. 7.

It is likely that a party of Australian flying men will make the attfempt to win the Daily Mail's £IO,OOO prize for a Trans-Atlantic flight. The men are"now preparing To use The Handley-Page_ for the taek.—Aius-N.2. Cable Assoc.