AIR FLIGHTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 March 1920, Page 5

AIR FLIGHTS.

NEW RACE FOR AUSTRALIA. AIRMEN IN INDIA. Br T*ligtapn.—Pro» Attn.—Copyright. Bombay, M*xoh 7. Captain C. G. Matthews, who left London in a Sopwith machine for Australia on Oitober 31 hut year, is leaving Karachi on.Marsh S for Delhi. Lieut. Parer and Lieut. Mcintosh, two Australian airmen, who left London on January 8 in a Be Haviland aeroplane for AttrtraiU, arrifed at Chapbar on the 6th and were expected at Buwftioa Jhe 7th. ,■, 4 A The Kangaroo team have definitely abandoned their flight to. Auitralia. Jthe toaehine will be offered for auction r yfaf It li« i» Suda ft»y.-A M ..N.Z. QKbto Attn. ,C'..t;>j •!'. IfiK UTEST REPORT. ' ' BOTA JiACMtfES TOGETHER, Received March 8, IIJQ jmb. Li Lieut. Mocintdek and Lieut. Parerhavft arrived. Tiey leave for Delhi on the 9th.. Captain Matthews accompaoies tham.-* BMter befviue. Ctptain MattheW protracted journey is accounted for by a series of delays and mishaps. His journey has been via France, Germany, the Balkans, and Petite. Lieut. Parer and Lieut. Mcintosh have proceeded via France, Egypt, and Persia. The Kangaroo is a Blackburn aeroplane. Which left London qn November *l *» fly to Australia. A mishap on ItUtfeg an the bland of Crete disabled ,tfe*iwiu, and to have continued the flight the installation of a complete new engine would (have been necessary. Captain Wilkins, the leader of the Kan* , * garoo party,' was a correspondent with the Turkish Army in the Balkan War of Utf-13, and was second in command of sHefanson's Arctic expedition.

CAIRO TO THE CAPE. ♦ITEMPT TO BE RESUMED. London, March 3. Lieut. P. S. Cotton crashed «t £pfettU in the darkness in attempting « fright flight. Be It endeavoring to .make repair* and U hopeful of continuing. Lieutenant Cotton, an Australian, airBaa, who, Lieutenant W. A. Towntend, Itj attempting to fly from Cairo to tke Cape, in an Airco-De Haviland ttaeltee, w«* forced to,land and the , machine wa» damaged. In the early •tag** Of the flight their machine made a magnificent ten haute' .flight from Lympne, in Kent, and landed at dark Mat Brindisi. Tfaie in the longest flight Jfwß fogland yet accomplished. It : rt» With the performance of the South African machine, Silver Queen, which mad* a flight of fourteen hours from Brindiii, It w*Y announced yesterday that the failure of the Silver Queen marked the exit of the last survivor in the Cairo to the Cape flight.' The attempt to fly from Cairo to the Cafe haa provided a chapter of accideat*. Colonel van Ryneveld, the pilot of the aeeond Silver Queen, crashed after leaving Bulawayo. The Times machine, piloted by Captain Coekeril), and the De Haviland, manned by Lieutenant Cotton and Lieutenant' Town•end, have both been wrecked. The Handle? Page machine, commissioned bv ,Qu tondofl.Daily Telegraph, and piloted by Major Brackley, came to grief near Atbara, on the Upper Nile. The service VjekeM-Vimy, piloted by Major Wehh of the R.AJ"., was forced to descend at Korosko. north of Wady Haifa, and was damaged.