STOP AT IRAQ.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 238, 7 October 1936, Page 7

STOP AT IRAQ.

MISS BATTEN HALTS. Record Trip from Brindisi to Cyprus. BAGDAD NEXT HOP. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 6. Miss Jean Batten continues to make rapid progress on her flight from England to New Zealand. Starting on 1 Monday morning, she concluded the j first day's flight at Brindisi, Italy,, where she spent the night. This morning she left for Athens and'. Cyprus, being next reported at an air- : port in the latter, where she arrived after' a record trip from Brindisi. Sjhe refuelled and left without delay for .Bagdad. Subsequently a Bagdad message reported that the airwoman had landed at the Iraq Petroleum Company's pumping station midway between Damascus and Bagdad. She is expected at Bagdad to-morrow.

FAST FLIGHT. Melbourne to Darwin in iUnder 13 Hours. LORD SEMPILL'S 'PLANE. (Received 12 noon.) DARWIN, this day. Piloted by Mr. H. Wood, Lord Sempill's Croydon Monospar 'plane arrived from Melbourne, having covered 2435 miles in 12 hours 55 minutes. Mr. Wood said he was confident he could keep his promise to the crew that they would have lunch in London next Sunday. To do this he must fly more than 12,700 miles without relief at the controls and break the record of 5 days 15 hours from Darwin to London held by Mr. D. Cathcart-Jones and Mr. Ken Waller.

GENEROUS DONOR. Aid for Dependents of Air Race Victims. JOHANNESBURG FATALITIES. (Received 11 a.m.) JOHANNESBURG, October 6. Mr. I. W. Schlesinger, donor of the £10,000 prize money for the PortsmouthJohannesburg air race, is giving £2000 each to Mrs. Findlay, wife of FlyingOfficer Findlay and Mrs. Morgan, wife of the wireless operator, who were killed in the crash of the 'plane flown in the race by Mr. Ken Waller. In addition he will give a further £2000 to be held in trust for the children of the lost aviators. Mr. Schlesinger states that he is not downhearted at the result of the racc as he thinks it will have given a fillip to civil aviation.

AIR RACE WINNER. LEAVING FOR ENGLAND. (Received 1.30 p.m.) JOHANNESBURG, October 6. The pilot of the winning 'plane, Mr. C. W. A. Scott, will leave for England at dawn on Thursday. "POOR MANS" 'PLANE. PRODUCTION AT £195 EACH. LONDON, October G. The production of an aeroplane to cost £195, called the Brawny, has been begun by a new company. It is claimed that it will prove to be the cheapest owner-pilot machine ever built in Britain. The new craft is . a single-seater monoplane with a baby car engine with a capacity of 35 to 40 miles to th<: gallon and a top speed of SO miles' an hour.