AVIATION.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19813, 28 December 1929, Page 13

AVIATION.

DANGEROUS TESTS TO BE MADE. TURNING AT HIGH SPEEDS. (tyiTEP ?HSS 3 ASSOCIATIONS* ELECTRO TZLEGBAPB —COP VSIGHT .J (Received December 27th, 8 p.m.) LONDON, December 26. Picked Air Force pilots will shortly indulge in death-defying experiments ar Felixstowe in order to ascertain whether pilots are rendered unconscious when, in racing seaplanes, they maKe a sharp turn at a ipeed ot three to four hundred miles rcr hour. It u. known that pilots experience "blacKout" under such circumstances, but tHe exact phvsical effect is unknown. The Air Force men will deliberately turn their racing craft at higher speeds in order to produce a "blackout, m order to study its effect. The only member of the high-speed team who has not yet experienced it is I'lightLieutenant Stamforth. a GloucesterNapier racing pilot, who, his comrades say, has a '"castiron" stomach. UNFORTUNATE FLYERS. BODIES BEING SENT HOME. (Received December 27th, S p.m.) PARIS, December 36. The bodies of Squadron-Leader A. J Jones-Williams and Flight-Lieut. N. H.Jenkins were landed at Marseilles, and are coming overland in a special coach. Major Costes, whose record they attempted to beat, is going to England to attend the funeral. [A Royal Air Force Fairey-Napier monoplane, piloted by SquadronLeader Jones-Williams and FlightLieut. Jenkins took off from the Cramwell Aerodrome on December 17th in an attempt to make a record non-stop flight to Cape Town The machine crashed in a storm in the mountainous region of Zaghouan, south of Tunis, and both aviators were killed.] A NEW ZEPPELIN. DR. ECKENER'S PROPOSAL. (Received December 27th, 8 p.m.) BERLIN, December 26. Dr. Eckener will begin the construction of L2 128, a sister-ship of the Graf Zeppelin, in the new year. The vessel will be 740 feet long, and will be bigger than the RlOl, while copying its passenger accommodation. [The principal dimensions of the RlOl are 732 ft in length, 140 ft high. Her passenger capacity is about 50-] BODIES OF FRENCH FLYERS FOUND. PARIS, December 26. The Air Ministry has been unofficially advised that the bodies of three flyers, Victor Joseph La Salle, Marcel Rebard, and Raymond Sallot, have been found on the Libyan coast by Italian airmen. The latter reported that the bodies were found in the wreckage of the aeroplane. The Italian authorities.will recover them and return them to French custody. The airman left Tunis on DecembeT 15th en route for French Indo-China from Le Bourget. ITALIAN MACHINE CRASHES FIVE PEOPLE ON BOARD. ATHENS, December 26. An Italian postal aeroplane, carrying five people, including Commander Rossi, from Constantinople, on the way to Rome, crashed near Saint Eustatios Island, in the early morning. Steamers and seaplanes are searching for possible survivors. (Received December 27th, 7 p.m.) ATHENS* December 26. Rescue attempte in connexion with the Italian postal aeroplane were fruitless, and no bodies were found. LITTLE HOPE HELD FOR AIRMEN. (Received December 27th, S.oo p.m.) ATHENS, December 27. The Italian postal seaplane, with a crew of five, was wrecked on Christmas Eve near the Island of St. Eustatios, near the Turkish coast in the Mge&n Sea. The Greek cruiser Helle failed to find the machine or the crew. Other aeroplanes have been dispatched, and the search is continuing, but little hope is felt for the recovery of the missing airmen.