AUCKLAND GIRL'S FLIGHT.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20829, 12 April 1933, Page 11

AUCKLAND GIRL'S FLIGHT.

NOW ON THIRD STAGE. GOOD TIME FROM NAPLES TO ATHENS. (UWITBD PRE 3 3 ASSOCIATION —7)Y ELSCTBIC TELEGRAPH —COFYItIGHT.) (Received April 11, 5.5 p.m.) ATHENS, April 11. Miss Jean Batten, the Auckland girl who is flying to Australia, left here at 3.40 o'clock this morning for Aleppo. When she arrived here last evening she was welcomed by enthusiastic crowds. She had experienced squalls approaching Athens, but in spite of this she had averaged 100 miles an hour on the flight from Naples. She declared that her principal wants were a square meal and rest. PREPARING FOR REGULAR SERVICE. SURVEY OF ROUTE. (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) (Received April 11, 7.3 p.m.) RUGBY, April 10. Sir John Simon said in the House of Commons that the Portuguese Government had agreed to permit' all facilities for a preliminary survey of the London to Australia air route, and the Netherlands Government had requested its East Indies Government to grant similar facilities. FLIGHT TO CAPE. CAPTAIN LANCASTER'S DEPARTURE. (Received April 11, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 11. Captain W. N. Lancaster left England at 5.35 a.m. on his flight + o Cape Town in an attempt to beat Mrs Amy Mollison's record. GERMAN GIRL'S FLIGHT. BERLIN TO THE CAPE. CAIRO, April 11. Fraulein Elli Beinhorn, who is flying from: Berlin to the Cape in easy stages, has left here for the Sudan. NARROW ESCAPE IN THE AIR. ! REFUELLING PRACTICE. ROPE CAUGHT IN AEROPLANE'S TAIL. LONDON, April 10. Rehearsing refuelling for his nonstop flight to Australia with Sir Alan Cobham, Squadron Leader William Helmore lowered a rope as a preliminary to lowering the petrol pipe. His mechanic lost his grip of the rope, which twisted itfeelf round the tail, causing the machine to hang for a minute nose downwards while the pilot struggled \yith the controls. Then the rope snapped, and the machine dropped like a stone until 300 feet from the sea, where Squadron Leader Helmore regained control, and flew to the aerodrome. [Sir Alan Cobham and Squadron Leader Helmore plan to fly non-stop to Australia in an Airspeed Courier aeroplane, refuelling at various places on the way. They will probably continue their flight to New Zealand.]