FRESH RECORDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 110, 12 May 1930, Page 7

FRESH RECORDS.

FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

Miss Johnson Reaches India

in Six Days.

HINKLER'S TIME BETTERED

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received 12.30 p.ra

RUGBY, May 11

Miss Amy Johnson, who is attempting to fly from England to Australia in a Gipsy Moth aeroplane, arrived at Karachi, India, at 4.40 p.m. yesterday.

The airwoman said the journey down the Persian Gulf was uneventful except for the terrific heat and lier difficulty in landing at Bunder Abbas. There she found that a front strut-bolt in her machine was broken, but this was repaired without trouble.

Miss Johnson reached Karachi after six days' flight, thereby establishing a fresh record for the distance by a sole flyer. She was then two days ahead of the schedule of Bert Hinkler, who hblds the record for the. quickest flight to Australia. Her most exciting experience on the journey so far occurred between Bagdad and Bunder Abbas, when she 'encountered an extremely violent sandstorm.

' She decided to land but the machine was blown about on the ground until she blocked the wheels with her luggage. For a time she could see only a few yards ahead, and when the weather cleared she found she had landed.on the only smooth patch for miles. Miss Johnson left at dawn to-day for Calcutta, via Allahabad. NEW POLICE FORCE. Air Patrol Over Fortified French Areas. FLYERS , WARNED OFF. (Received 10.30 a.m.) PARIS, May 11. • The world's first aerial police force has been organised to enforce the prohibition of flying over fortified areas in the Moselle departments. Two military aeroplanes at Metz and two at Thionvillo' are available to the air police, who recently pursued and forced down a commercial aeroplane transgressing the prohibition. ' BARNARD'S PLAN. ROUND THE WORLD IN 30 DAYS. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 13. Captain Barnard, the Duchess of Bedf6rd's pilot, is-preparing a round the world flight. He states he is confident of covering 25,000 miles in 30 days. INDIAN AIRMEN. \ ■ _____ AGA KHAN'S PRIZE WON. DELHI, May 11. Man Mohan- Singh, the young Punjabi airman who had made several prior attempts, has arrived •at Karachi from Croydon. He has won the Aga Khan's prize for the first native Indian who made a solo flight from England. Another Indian, Aspy Eneineer, is expected to arrive at Karachi to-day, while a third Indian airman, Jchanger Tata, is flying to England, and reached Alexandria on Friday.