AIRMEN MISSING.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19974, 8 July 1930, Page 11

AIRMEN MISSING.

FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA. LAST SEEN HEADING OUT TO SEA. (tJXITBD PHKBS ASSOCIATION —BY BLECTUIC TZLJSGttAPH—OOPtHIaHT.) (Received July 7tli, 11.10 p.m.) DELHI, July 7. An intensive search is being made along the coastline between Kyaukpyu, 80 miles south of Akyab and Bassein, for the airmen, Ilook and Matthews, who were on a flight to Australia, and who were last seen over Kyaukpyu heading out to sea. It is feared that they have fallen into the sea, as the weather at the time was stormy and the visibility was poor. Vessels in the vicinity have been asked to keep a sharp look out for any trace of the missing airmen. The region between Akyab and Rangoon is where Sir Alan Cobham and Miss Amy Johnson met the most terrible weather, the former being forced to land on the sea and Miss Johnson having to turn back in order to obtain sufficient altitude to cross the mountains into which she narrowly escaped crashing.

KING'S CUP AIR RACE. OVATION FOR THE WINNER. (bbitish GmciAL wieeless.) RUGBY, July 6. Miss Winifred Brown, winner of the air race for the King's Cup, received a tremendous ovation when she descended from her machine, her faco blackened with the exhaust fumes, and later when sho received the King's Cup and tho Siddeley Challenge Trophy. Miss Brown had never before flown such a long distance. She maintained an average of 102.7 miles an hour over the 750 miles course. Irrespective of handicap, the fastest times in the race were those of A. S. Butler, in a Gipsy Moth at 129.7 miles an hour; Mrs Butler, in a Puss Moth, 129.5 miles an hour; and FlightLieutcnant E. B. Fielden, piloting Princo George's Hawk Moth, whoso speed was 126 miles an hour.

A FLYER INJURED. CRASH AT START OF FLIGHT. ST. JOHNS (Newfoundland), July 6. Squadron-Leader C. S. Wynne-Eyton was painfully injured when his Do Haviland Puss-Moth aeroplane crashed in the take-off for Ilr.rbour Grace, whence he had planned to start a lone flight to Ireland. Spectators removed him from the wreckage three minutes before the petrol tanks exploded, burning the aeroplane. The flyer's condition is not serious.