DISTANCE FLYING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 255, 9 August 1933, Page 5

DISTANCE FLYING.

THE RECORD FLIGHT, BIG REWARD FOR FRENCHMEN. (United Press Association —Copyright). PARIS, August 7. MM. Poul Codos and Maurise Rossi, the two French airmen, who took off from New York on a “flight to nowhere” on Sunday morning, and landed at Kayak, near Bagdad, covered 5915 miles, and averaged 105 miles an hour. The airmen will receive the French Air Ministry’s prize of 1,000,000 francs as being tbe first Frenchmen to break the record. Their time from New York to Paris may also be a record, beating Colonel Lindbergh’s record of 33£ hours made in 1927 by three minutes. The previous record, of 5300 miles, was made during the recent flight of Squadron-Leader O. R. Gaylord and Flight-Lieutenant Nicholetts, of Fl’ c Royal Air Force, who piloted a Fairey long-range monoplane from England to Walfish Bay, South Africa. They flew considerably further than the 5300 miles at which the record-was claimed. POLISH AIRMEN CRASH. ON FLIGHT TO HOMELAND. (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) HARBOUR GRACE (Newfoundland), August 8. The Polish-American flyers, Messrs Benjamin and Joseph Adamowicz and Emit Birgen, escaped serious injury today when their monoplane overran the landing field here and crashed in some scrub growth. They took off from New York early on Tuesday with the intention of flying to Poland. MASS ATLANTIC FLIGHT. ITALIAN SQUADRON DEPARTS. SHOAL HARBOUR, (Newfoundland), August, S. 1 The Italian Air Armada took off en route for home, via the Azores, 2.45 a.m. (Eastern standard time). WOMAN FLYER’S DEATH. STRUCK MOUNTAIN IN FOG. TOKIO, August 8. Miss Boku, aged twenty-six, a Korean aviatrix, left Tokio yesterday on a •Solo flight to Manehukuo. She was discovered this morning dead on a mountain in the Shidzuoka Prefecture. She had crashed in a fog. —~ zrrzsz*