LONG DISTANCE AVIATION,

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17986, 3 April 1930, Page 7

LONG DISTANCE AVIATION,

PIPER-KAYE FLIGHT. ARRIVAL AT BOURKESYDNEY, April 2. Flying Officers 11. L. Piper anrl C. Kay, the New Zealand airmen who flew from England lo Darwin and are now on Uieir way to Sydney, left Longreach, North Queensland, at 6.1 t) a.m. to-day. They arrived at BOurke, New Soutli Wales, and will leave there l'or Narromine to-morrow morning. Local advices stale that a terrific dust storm prevails out west. Nevertheless, the fliers expect to reach Sydney to-morrow afternoon. BRITAIN’S BIG AIRSHIP. FLIGHT TO CANADA. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 1. The airship IUOO is to he taken from the hangar at Cardington, near Bedi'ord, in a l'ew weeks to undergo trials preparatory to a flight lo Canada. An overhaul is now being carried out. The Air Ministry expects the flight to Canada to be started in May. The airship will be flown to Montreal, where a tall mooring mast has been erected. After her •gasbags have been refilled she will return to England. TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC. NEW YORK. April 1. A message from Paris, Maine, says Cap Lain Harry Lyon, who was navigat,or in the Southern Cross on its Irans-Puciflc flight, stales that an aeroplane 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. SMITH AND SHIERS. REACH WYNDIIAM. SYDNEY, April 2. Messrs D. Smith and II- W. Shiers, the Australian airmen, who made a forced landing when on the way to Wyndham to take off on a flight to England, reached Wyndham to-day. Both men were so exhausted that they fell asleep shortly after their arrival, and the welcome planned by the townspeople was postponed. Mr Smith’s fattier in Sydney received a message saying: “Thank God for wireless. We have passed through an anxious period. We intend to effect repairs to our machine and then go on.”