STILL A CHANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 235, 3 October 1936, Page 9

STILL A CHANCE.

CLOUSTON'S FLIGHT. New Zealand Airman Reaches Uganda. MUST FINISH ON SUNDAY. United Tress Association.—Copyright. (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, October 2. In expectation of the arrival of Flight-Lieutenant Clouston, the New Zealand competitor in the Ports-mouth-Johannesburg air race, aerodromes will be lighted to-night. The airman was detained at Khartoum on account of engine trouble, for which a piston was said to have been flown from Cairo. He hopes to reach Johannesburg within the scheduled time allowed, 120 hours. He must finish on Sunday to qualify for a handicap prize, and should he do so he will be second, the prize being £3000. A message from Entebbe, Uganda, says that Mr. Clouston arrived there at 4.48 p.m., British summer time. He will leave at dawn for Abercorn, whence he will fly non-stop to Johannesburg. He hopes to arrive at 5 p.m. on Saturday.

Victor Smith, the South African competitor, left Athens for Cairo. He hopes to finish within the time limit but his chances are considered slender. It was reported yesterday, evidently in error, that Smith had crashed in Yugoslavia en route to London, whence he was returning after a mishap at Salonika. It is revealed that Flying-Officer Llewellyn was four hours ahead of Mr. C. W. A. Scott when he crashed yesterday owing to shortage of petrol due to a leak while searching for a landing place after his inability to find Abercorn aerodrome. His 'plane hit trees, overturned and was completely wrecked. Owing to the tragedies in the race, the Aero Club banquet and presentation of prizes was cancelled. Tlio victims of the crash at Abercorn, Rhodesia, Flight-Lieutenant Max Findlav (co-pilot with Mr. Ken Waller) and Mr. Morgan (radio operator) were buried there to-day, reports a British official wireless dispatch. |