AVIATION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20033, 15 September 1930, Page 11

AVIATION.

WIND SPOILS PAGEANT. boisterous times at LIVERPOOL. (united raEss association—by electric TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received September 14th, 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, September 14. A boisterous wind spoiled the air pageant at Liverpool, flying being abandoned after four heats of the ten mile race had been competed for, the last of which was won by a woman, Mrs Terry. The final will be flown next Saturday. During an interval tho wind caught a line of club Moths, one of which was blown into a fence and damaged before the hurrying pilot and mechanics could seize it. In the fourth heat, S. Colville pancaked twice, then the wind took a hand. The propeller was smashed and the wing damaged, but the pilot was not hurt. FLIGHT ACROSS THE PACIFIC. LIEUTENANT BROMLEY SETS OUT. (Received September 14th, 5.30 p.m.) TOKIO, September 14. Lieutenant Harold Bromley started 5v o'clock this morning in his flight for America. The weather is perfect, with a slight westerly breeze. HOKKAIDO ISLAND CROSSED. (Received September 14th, 11.12 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, September 14. Four hours after departure, Lieutenant Bromley, in a wireless message received at Tokio from the aeroplane, indicated that the machine had passed over the Hokkaido Island, 350 miles from Tokio. WEATHER PROSPECTS. (Reoeived September 14th, 5.80 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 13. A San Francisco message states: The United States Weather Bureau has informed Lieutenant Bromley that good flying conditions would probably prevail over the Northern Pacific for the latter portion of his flight • from Japan to Tacoma. The Bureau reported that conditions from the Aleutians to Tacoma as "unsettled for next three days The win-Is will be strong west of 40 degrees, fifty miles per hour at high flying; altitudes." OmciaLs of the bureau said that by taking advantage of such conditions Lieutenant Bromley would have advantageous tail winds and low clouds. AEROPLANES COLLIDE. TWO CADETS KILLED. (Received September 14th, 5.5 p.m.) . CAPE TOWN, September 13. Two Air Force cadets, Joubert and King, collided at seven o'clock in the morning at Pretoria, when flying at a height of 400 feet. Both crashed and were killed. One of the aeroplanes, an Avian, had the wing broken off and the other, an 5.E.5, was smashed to pieces. King's father was killed ia the 1914 rebellion at Brokhorspruit. ANOTHER TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT. ADVERSE CONDITIONS MET. (Received September 14th, 5.5 p.m.) OTTAWA, September 13. A message from St. Hubert (Quebec) states: —Captain Errol Boyd (Canadian), with Lieutenant Harry Connor (United States) as navigator, hopped off on Saturday morning from Harbour Grace en route to England in Chamberlain's trans-Atlantio aeroplane Columbia. . , ~ The machine • landed at Charlotte Town on Saturday because of strong head winds, and other flying conditions. They hop-off on feunday for Harbour Grace. GRAF ZEPPELIN FIRED ON. (Received September 14th, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, Septpmber 13. It is now reported that the Graf Zeppelin was shot at near the Russian border. The Soviet Government blames Latvian guards, who answer that they distinctly heard shots fired in Russian territory.