ROCKET WRECKED

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 182, 3 August 1932, Page 7

ROCKET WRECKED

DREAM SHATTERED.

Plan for Daring Flight Across

Tasman.

EXPLOSION IN GARAGE.

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

(Received 10 a.m.)

SYDNEY, this day,

An explosion in a garage at Roseville shattered for the time being the dre'am of two men, Kenneth Foreman and Ernest Frasci , , who hoped to fly to New Zealand in a rocket.

The men stated that they- have been experimenting on explosive propulsion for a number of years, and on perfecting the small model that was destroyed they had intended to build a man-size rocket to cross the Tasman.

Their first model, fired from Wollongong, landed within six feet of the chosen spot on one of five islands 3A miles away, according to claims made by Foreman.

SYDNEY TO EUROPE.

Flight By Americans in Fast

'Plane Projected

SCHEME OUTLINED,

(Received 10 a.m.) LOS ANGELES, August 2.

The Australian Press Association learns that there is a proposal for a Sydney to Europe flight via Dutch East Indies, China and Egypt by Captain James Dickson as pilot and Arthur lioew, an American theatre owner, who are sailing on the Monterey on September 23 with the Lockheed Orion 'plane which recently broke the New York-Loe Angeles passenger flight record, doing 2500 miles in 14 hours 45 minutes.

Captain Dickson's office here confirmed the general details of the plan, which provides for the 'plane Spirit of Fun, to depart from Sydney for Darwin shortly after the arrival of the Monterey.

GERMAN FLYER.

ARRIVAL AT CHICAGO,

(Received 11 a.m.) CHICAGO, August 2,

Captain von Gronau, the German airman who flew the Atlantic via tho Arctic route, arrived here on Tuesday from Detroit.