AIRMAN REPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 186, 8 August 1930, Page 7

AIRMAN REPORTS.

AUSTRALIAN'S FLIGHT

Cunningham Lands On Flores

Island.

ANXIETY RELIEVED.

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph— Copyright)

(Received 12 noon.)

WELTEVREDEN, August 7.

News of the safety of Mr. A. T. Cunningham, the Australian airman who is attempting to fly from Australia to' England, has been received at Batavia.

The non-arrival of the flyer at Bima, Sumbawa Island, Dutch East Indies, on Tuesday morning had caused anxiety and a search for liim on Timor Island had been ordered.

It now transpires that Mr. Cunningham landed on Tuesday afternoon at the coastal village of Boleng on Flores Island. His machine was not damaged and the airman himself was not injured.

The aviator was forced to land after a_ nine hours' flight, on account of his oil pressure giving out. He will require a runway made to take off and this will occupy two days.

Mr. Cunningham intends to continue his flight to Bima shortly.

TABLES TURNED. Final Count in Round Europe Air Race. GERMANS WINNERS. (Received 1 p.m.) BERLIN, August 7. After marks had been allotted for technical and other tests the German flyer Morzik was declared the winner of the recent round Europe race with 423 points. The German Poss was second with the same number, and the German Notz was third with 419. Miss B. SpoOner (Britain) gained 416, the Gentian Polte 406, Mr. J. Carberry 405, Captain H. Broad 305. It was the starting and landing tests over 30 feet obstacles which gave the Germans their final aid, although Miss Spooner's expertnesfe in making splendid landings secured her the highest points.

ACROSS AMERICA. FLIGHT RECORD BROKEN. Captain Frank Hawks, piloting the mystery 'plane Texaco 13, on August 0, bvoko the existing east to west transcontinental speed record of 18 hours 40 minutes, by three hours 50 minutes, according to a cable received in Auckland by the Texas Oil Company. The tinle for the 2500 miles trip from New York to Los .- Angeles was 14 hours 50 minutes. Five stops of 15 minutes each wero made., -

It is stated that Captain Hawks will attempt to break the existing west to east record of 14 hours 21' minutes. Texaco 13 is a low-winged monoplane 20ft 2in long, powered by a 300 li.p. Wright J6 special racing engine. The wing span is 30 feet and the 'plane has a bulletlike, streamlined fuselage.