HUMAN BULLET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 95, 23 April 1931, Page 7

HUMAN BULLET.

FAST 'PLANE TRIP. London-Rome Return Attempted In One Day. PETROL FAILS. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 22. Captain Frank Hawks, the famous American flying ace, who set out from Heston aerodrome early this morning to fly to Rome and back in one day, made a forced landing 150 kilometres south of Paris this evening on the return stage of his journey.

He was not injured and will complete his flight to-morrow. He reached Rome about noon, having travelled at an average speed of 174 miles an hour. Captain Hawks, who is known as the ''human bullet," covered the 900 miles to Rome in five hours 22 minutes. Lack of petrol compelled him to land. HEAVY OIL ENGINES. New 'Plane Stands Tests in Germany. ENORMOUS ADVANTAGES. (Received 12.30 p.m.) BERLIN, April 22. An important stage in the evolution of air transport was reached when Juno IV., an aeroplane driven by heavy motor oil. was tried out successfully after 20 years' research at the Junkers laboratory. The machine has a nix-cylinder engine of 720 horse-power, and increases flying range by 47 per cent. She has a loading capacity of 100 per cent, while the working cost of her Diesel engine is 05 per cent below that of a petrol engine. AIR LINER CRASHES. DESTROYED AT CROYDON. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 22. The triple-engined 20-seater Imperial Airways liner City of Edinburgh crashed at Croydon aerodrome, caught fire and was destroyed. The pilot wag not injured. DINED TOO WELL. LADY HEATH ARRESTED. • (Received 11 a.m.) WINDSOR (Ontario), April 22. Lady Mary Heath, the noted British airwoman, has been arrested as a result of an altercation in a car with her secretary. as to who should drive. She was granted bail on a charge of being intoxicated. Lady Heath had been a guest at two dinner parties.

AHEAD OF TIME

SOUTHERN CROSS' FLIGHT. (Received 11.30 a.m.! BRISBANE, this dav. The Southern Cross, piloted by AirCommodore Kingsford Smith, arrived at Cloncurrv two hours ahead of schedule. She is en route to Koepang, Java, to pick up the mails from the crashed mail 'plane City of Cairo. HOME AGAIN. FLYING BOAT RETURNS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, April 22. One of the Iris flying boats which left England on March 24 on a flight to Egypt and back, returned to Plymouth to-day. The second boat is still at St. Nazarene. MAILS FOR N.Z. AUSTRALIAN AIR SERVICE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. April 22. The Postmaster-General. Major C. R. Attlee. announces that the Indian air mail which will leave London on April 25 will again be extended experimentally from Delhi to Port Darwin. Correspondence for the Straits Settlements, the Malay States, Australia and New Zealand will be dispatched by it.