LONGER STILL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1928, Page 9

LONGER STILL.

LINDY'S PILGRIMAGE. Plans For A Round-the-World Tour. HIS NEXT UNDERTAKING. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.)

(Received 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 30. A United Press Association message states that Colonel Lindbergh has advised his army friends that he intends to fly the Atlantic again this summer.

He plans to visit most of the European countries, after which he hopes to continue across Russia, China and Japan,' returning over the Pacific.

The flight is expected to start from New York, with the first stop somewhere in Germany.

A message from St. Louis states that on being questioned regarding this undertaking Lindbergh refused to divulge his plans until they were perfected.

LANCASTER'S FLIGHT. Saved . From Disaster By Lady Passenger. DIFFICULT LANDING MADE. (Received 10.30 n.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The Red Rose, the 'plane in which Captain W. N. Lancaster and Mrs. Keith Miller, the wife of a Melbourne journalist, have flown from Croydon to Australia, readied the Newcastle racecourse in pouring rithi. A gusty wind made the landing difficult.

As the supply of petrol on the 'plane could last only a few minutes longer Captain Lancaster decided to risk alighting on the course, which appeared to be under water. The machine landed, was caught by a gust of wind and turned toward a fence, but Mrs. Miller averted an accident by climbing out of the cockpit and running alongside the machine and throwing her weight against the wing. The 'plane thus swung round paralled with the fence, which it missed by inches. Mrs. Miller is an ex-pupil of Craighead Girls' School, a private institution in Timaru.

COBHAM'S VENTURE.

ARRIVAL AT CAPETOWN. (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, March 30. Sir Alan Cobham reached Capetown this morning, thus completing the • outward half of his flight over Africa. .

BYRD'S GIANT 'PLANE.

TEST FLIGHTS MADE. (Received 10.30 a.m.) WINNIPEG, March 30. The giant monoplane in which Commander Byrd plans to make his South Pole flight, is equipped with skis. Piloted by Lieutenants Bennett and Balchen, his pilots, the machine started out this afternoon for the snow tracts of Northern Manitoba on test flights.

HINKLER AGAIN.

NON-STOP OF 1000 MILES. (Received 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The Australian airman, Mr. Bert Hinkler, made a non-stop flight from Melbourne to Cook, on the transcontinental railway, of 1000 miles, which is a record for Australia, equalling hie own flight from London to Rome.