CUTTER LEAVES 10 SEEK OCEAN FLYERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 9

CUTTER LEAVES 10 SEEK OCEAN FLYERS.

HONOLULU ORDERS. Mrs. Putnam's Radio Call On Pacific Hop. LITTLE FUEL, NO LANDFALL, k — i Q United Press Association.—Copyright. so o (Received 12 noon.) HONOLULU, July 2. ° The coastguard authorities have r advised that the cutter Itasca Avill start on a search for Mrs. Amelia (Earhart) Putnam, making the hop S irom Lae, New Guinea, to Rowland Island, on her round-the-world flight s eastward from New York. ° c A radio message was received from the 'plane that there was only sufficient fuel left for half an hour's flying and the navigator could not make a "landfall. | 5 This message was sent out by the plane at eight minutes past (j a m (Howland Island time). ' Mrs. Putnam and her navigator, Captain Noonan, left Lae at 10 a.m. today in perfect weather. The flight, 2250 miles over ocean, was expected to take 18 hours. Five hours after leaving Mrs. Putnam < wirelessed that she was flying at an < altitude of 7000 feet and at a speed of i 100 knots per hour. Californian coast- ' guards at San Francisco report bavin" ] twice contacted with the 'plane by I ladio, the first time when it was esti- i mated to have covered half the distance, and again five hours later. 1 " SMITHY " RELIC. AUSTRALIAN INQUIRY. (Keceived 0.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The Civil Aviation Department has cabled the Burmese authorities seeking confirmation of the latest report of finding of a wheel from Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's Lockheed aeroplane. Its discovery was reported by a cable from a Jack Stodder, of Kanbank, Burma, yesterday. GLIDING RECORD. GERMAN WOMAN'S FLIGHT. (Received 12 noon.) KONIGSBERG, July 2. A student, Fraulein Inge Wetzel, established a world's gliding record of *8 hours 31 minutes. ATLANTIC FLIGHTS. AIR MAIL MACHINES TO START. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, July 2. The giant Empire flying boat Cale- j donia will leave the River Shannon, Ireland, on Monday on a 2000-mile flight across the Atlantic. It is expected that the journey will take 18 hours. An American Sikorsky Clipper, which is already in position for a flight in ihe opposite direction, will leave its 1-flse, Botwood, Newfoundland, at the same time and the two machines should pass each other in mid-Atlantic.