FAST PROGRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 113, 14 May 1936, Page 7

FAST PROGRESS.

EXCELLENT CHANCES. Mrs. Mollison's Good Time on Record Flight. BIG MARGIN TO SPARE. British Official Wireless. (Received 2 p.m.) RUGBY, May 13. Mrs. Amy Mollison, who is attempting to capture Flight-Lieutenant Tommy Rose's Capetown-England record, reached Cairo at 0.10 p.m. (Greenwich mean time). She took off from Juba on the 1800 miles stretch to the Egyptian capital at 3 a.m. and landed at Khartoum at 5.20 a.m. to refuel. She will beat the existing record f.or a Cape-to-England flight if she reaches Croydon before 3 a.m. on Sunday, but the newspapers think she may complete her flight to-morrow. Mrs. Mollison captured both the Eng-land-Capetown and Capetown-England records late in 1032, on the outward trip beating a record established earlier in the same year by her equally-famous husband. LARGEST 'PLANE SEEN British Flying-Boat Arrives At Darwin. AIR ROUTE SURVEY FLIGHT. (Received 11 a.m.) DARWIN, this day. A Southampton flying boat, the largest 'plane ever to be seen in Australia, has arrived from Singapore. The giant machine carries a crew of 12 and will continue to Sydney carrying out survey work for the proposed flying boat service to Australia. 'PLANE IN SEA. Seven Occupants Escape in Night Landing. MACHINE BLOWN ASHORE. MELBOURNE, May 13. A three-engined Saro Windhover metal flying boat was forced down on the sea half a mile from King Island, in Bass Strait, to-day. It was carrying, in addition to the pilot and navigator, five members of the Victorian Aero Club, who were on their way to shoot pheasants on the island, which is situated midway between the mainland and Tasmania. The machine left Melbourne at 3 p.m. and is believed to have been overtaken by darkness. A steamer and several motor launches were engaged in searching for the machine. Fifty motor cars on the beach, with their headlights pointing out to sea, assisted the searchers. The rescuers located the machine about 9 p.m., but before they could reach it the wind blew it on to the rocky shore, where it became a total loss. The occupants scrambled ashore safely. The pilot of the flying boat is Mr. Cecil Clark and the navigator Mr. C. Gatenby. The machine is owned by the Matthews Aviation Company. FLIGHT OVER ENGLAND. GERMAN ZEPPELIN'S TRIP. (Received 1 p.m/i LONDON, May 13. The giant German Zeppelin Hindenburg, largest airship in the world, passed over Southern England to-day. She is expected to land at Frankfurt at 5 a.m. SENTENCED TO DEATH. MURDER BY AN AVIATOR. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 13. A member of the Eoval Air Force, Aircraftsman Frederick Herbert Charles Field, aged 32, was sentenced to death to-day for the murder of Mrs. Beatrice Sutton by smothering her with pillows in her house in Claphain early in April. At the trial Field said he had never seen the woman before and had no ill feeling towards her, but had killed her because he had felt extremely depressed and had experienced a terrible desire to murder someone.

CO-ORDINATED AIRWAYS. NEW AUSTRALIAN COMPANY. MELBOURNE, May 13. Two air companies and four shipping companies, including the Uiyon Steam Ship Company, are' planning to coordinate the inter-capital air services of Australia. They have formed a new company, with a capital of £500,000, to be known as Australian National Airways. This company will be the most powerful aviation group operating in Australia. It is believed that ultimately it will extend its operations to New Zealand and New Guinea.

FLIGHT TO JAVA. N.Z. AIRMAN STARTS MONDAY. SYDNEY, May 13. Mr. W. M. O'Hara, who arrived in Sydney from Auckland on May 5, will take off on Monday on a leisurely flight to Java.