AIRMAN RILLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1930, Page 7

AIRMAN RILLED.

AUSTRALIAN'S DEATH New York Attempts to Reach Unknown Parents. DOUBLE FATALITY. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 7. Efforts are being made in Hawaii to reach the parents of Rupert S. McAllister, an Australian pilot who was killed in an aeroplane crash here. The aviator, who had been in the United States for eleven years and who had done flying for the MetroGoldwyn moving picture company, was latterly a regular pilot for the Bach Aircraft Corporation of Yannuys, California. He had flown here with Worden Hunter, president of the concern. Their aeroplane crashed in the Roosevelt Field on Friday night, following their return from a nearby Connecticut town. The 'plane was burned and the bodies extricated with difficulty. A representative of the Bach Company here informed the Australian Press Association that they were unable to determine McAllister's Australian address but believed that the aviator's father was a station owner, although his initials were unknown. McAllister had said that his parents were at Honolulu at this time en route to the United States. Efforts are being made td communicate with the latter, while the body is held in a local mortuary.

FLYING BASE.

Pembroke Dockyard Taken Over from Admiralty. FOUNDED BY NELSON. (British Official Wireless.) EUGBY, April 7. The Pembroke dockyard has been taken over from the Admiralty by the Air Ministry. It is to be used as a base for flying boats and seaplanes. Tho principal stations for these craft at present are at Felixstowe, Calshot and Lee-on-the-Solent.-TJio Pembroke dockyard, which owed its foundation to Lord Nelson, was regularly used by the Navy as a building and repairing yard until a few years ago. It was then listed as redundant and was closed for reasons of economy. FREIGHT 'PLANE CRASH. GERMANS KILLED IN SURREY. LONDON, April 7. A German air pilot and mechanic were killed when a Junker freight aeroplane bound from Croydon to Berlin crashed in Surrey. It is understood that the machine was being flown at a low altitude to avoid the clouds. The pilot misjudged the distance from the earth, arid the aeroplane crashed and burst into flames. BRITAIN TO JAPAN. VAN LEAR BLACK MAKES TRIP. TOKYO, April 7. Mr. Van Lear Black, the American newspaper proprietor who has made many long flights, left Osaka at 10 a.m. yesterday, and arrived at Tachikawa aerodrome, Tokyo, at noon. This was the last stage of his flight from England. Mr. Van Lear Black left Croydon early in the morning of February 10 on a flight to China and Japan. He was accompanied by two pilots and a valet. Mr. Black's machine is a new Fokker three-engined monoplane replete with many novel devices. It created most lively interest among flying people at Croydon. AMERICA CROSSED. LONG GLIDER FLIGHT. NEW YORK, April 7. Captain Frank Hawks yesterday afternoon completed a flight from Los Angeles to New York in a glider towed by an aeroplane. SEVEN-DAY AIR MAIL. * NEW AMERICAN SERVICE. WASHINGTON, April 7. The assistant-Postmaster-General, Mr. W. Irving Glover, announces that, on April. 26 a seven-day air mail service will be opened between New York, Buenos Ayres and Montevideo. The PanAmerican Airways system will handle the service.