AIR VENTURES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1927, Page 7

AIR VENTURES.

BRITISHERS RETURN.

No Plaudits for Carr and

Gillman.

BUT FOREIGNERS FETED

(By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright.)

LONDON, June S,

Whereas 200,000 people -welcomed Captain Lindbergh at Croydon and 60,000 acclaimed Messrs. Chamberlain and Levine at Berlin, only 12 persons, including relatives and journalists, welcomed Flight-Lieutenants Carr and Gillman at Victoria station to-day.

Yet these two men risked their lives in an attempt to secure the long-dis-tance flying record for Britain, failing by the narrow margin of IS3 miles.

The two airmen drove home from the station without a single cheer.—(Svdnev "Sun.") '

Flight-Lieutenant Charles Roderick Carr, pilot of the Hawker Horsley, who is a New Zealander, obtained his pilot's certificate from the Royal Aero Club, London, on March 14, 1916. During the war he served with the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, attaining the rank of Major. Later he accompanied Shackleton's polar expedition as air pilot. Flig.itLieutenant L. E. M. Gillman, Carr's companion on the flight as navigator and observer, also served with the R.F.C. and R.A.F. He was eelected for similar duty with one of the four Fairey seaplanes which made a 14,000-mile flight last year from Cairo to the Cape and back to England, the journey being completed by nil four machines in flying times varying from 183 to 190 hours. The whole flight wae carried out without incident, according to programme and no change of engine.

AMERICANS IN BERLIN.

"CELESTIAL MESSENGERS."

BERLIN, June 7. The American airmen, Messrs. Clarence D. Chamberlain and Charles Levine, who have flown from New York to Germany, reached Berlin to-day after an hour's flight from Kottbus. A huge crowd waited their approach and greeted them with a storm of cheering. The United States Ambassador to Germany, Mr. J. G. Schurman, was the first to greet the airmen. In the course of a speech the Ambassador hailed them ns "celestial messengers" who had carried goodwill and friendship from America to Germany. The German Minister of Economic Affairs, Herr Curtius, congratulated the airmen on behalf of Germany. He remarked that they had cemented the bonds between the two countries. Mr. Cliamberlin says he has no intention of flying back to America, although he will adhere to his decision to fly to Paris, Vienna, and London.—(A. and N.Z. and Sydney "Sun.")

ROOK IN DESERT.

TW,O FORCED LANDINGS.

CAIRO, June 1 7.

The British airman, Denis Rook, who is flying to Australia in a Moth 'plana, was compelled to descend twice in the Libyan desert for repairs. He will resume his journey on June 14 from Aboukir.