AVIATION.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20197, 27 March 1931, Page 15

AVIATION.

FASTER FLYING-BOATS. MEDITERRANEAN service. (asms* OOTIOJA*. (Received March 26th, 0,5 p.m-) RUGBY, March 25. As a result of permanent agreements with Italy snd Greecp and the introduction of fister flying-boats in the Mediterranean, Imperial Airways have arranged to ppe§d up both their England, India, and the newly-opened Central African air mail servioes. TO EGYPT AND BACK. TWO IRIS BOATS LEAVE(BRITISH OFFICIAL (Received March 26th, 6 p,m.) RUGBY, March 25. Two Iris flying-boats of the No, 209 squadron, left Mountbatten Air Station, near Plymouth, yesterday,, on an out-and-home flight to Egypt. Two or three weeks will be occupied in the flight, which will cover about 5050 miles. Air Chief Marshal, Sir John SalI ipond, who is due to leave England on Marnli 30th to carry out an official tour of the Royal Air Force in the East, will cover part of, his journey in one qf these flying-boats, joining it at Marseilles. FROM TOKIO TO PARIS. FRENCH AIRMEN DEPART, (Received March 26th, 5.5 p.m.) TOKJQ, March 23, . The French aviators, Burtin and Moenche, have departed for Paris. COLLISION ALOFT, FINNISH AIRMEN KILLED. (Received March 26th, 5.5 p.m.) HELSINGFORS, March 26. During a demonstration of military formation flying, watched by 7QOI) people on the ice near fcJverborg Fortress, two aeroplanes looping at a height of 2000 feet, collided and buret into flames, and the blading fragments were scattered by highwinds. Tbe aeroplanes interlocked, and fell on the ioe; Lieutenant Artola and Flying-Master Saldmen were killed. The crowd rushed to tbe biasing aeroplanes, and the ice cracked ominously. The nolico and military drove the people baok. ADVENTUROUS GIRL. FORCED DOWN IN DESERT* .. „ " r BERLIN. March 25, The denizens of the bazaars at Timbuktu were startled by the apparition of a sunburned young woman, travelstained, wearing a shirt and shorts, Staggering in alone from the desert in a state of collapse. She was Blli Beinr horn, Germany's Amy Johnson, who started in January to fly to West Africa in easy stages. The leaking of 31 compelled her to make a forces landing; 30 miles from Timbuktu, necessitating a fowwiays' journey over the sandy wastes to safety.