BIG FLIGHT PLANNED.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20878, 10 June 1933, Page 11

BIG FLIGHT PLANNED.

AUSTRALIAN PREPARATIONS. (Received June 9, 11.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 9. A flight round the world is being prepared by Mr C. T. Ulm, who, with Messrs G. Allen and P. Taylor as co-pilots, has reconditioned the former National Airways monoplane Southern Moon. They intend to cross the Pacific by way of Suva and Honolulu. The final test of the monoplane, weighted with a ton and a half of petrol, was completed to-day.

FLIGHT RESUMED. ROUND-THE-WORLD ATTEMPT. (Received June 9, 8.20 p.m.) LONDON, June 9. Lieutenant James J. Mattern resumed his flight round the world at 4 a.m. from Belovo, and landed safely at Krasnoyarsk. OVERCOME BY FUMES. FLYER'S NARROW ESCAPE.

LONDON, June 8

A North American Newspaper Alliance special message says: "Lieutenant James J. Mattern telephoned from Belovo that he had been forced to land when overcome by gases from a leaky petrol pipe. In landing he damaged the stabiliser.

"He added: 'I left Omsk at 1.10 o'clock in the morning. Four hours later I began to feel queer, and then suffered nausea as I caught a real whiff of the fumes due to a leaky petrol pipe. There' was only miles of trees below, and my head was spinning like a top. I tried tilting the plane to get fresh air, and was just wondering what was going to happen when I saw a clear patch, and headed for it, fighting the fumes. I do not know how I landed.

'I was found by Russians employed at a workers' settlement. They were besieging the aeroplane. I crawled out and collapsed. The workers took me to a hut and I lay in a bunk terribly sick. Later I felt better and inspected the aeroplane. I found I had made a lucky landing, striking the ground with the tail and cracking the stabiliser. The Russians sent mechanics from Novosibirsk, and also an aeroplane with enough steel to patch the aeroplane. I shall make her fly to Krasnoyarsk, where she will be properly repaired.'"

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS SURVEY FLIGHT.

MACHINE REACHES CALCUTTA. (Received June 9, 8.20 p.m.) CALCUTTA, June 8. The Imperial Airways machine Atlanta, which is making a survey flight to Australia, has arrived at Calcutta. NEW ZEALAND AERO CLUB. (nirss association tileoraji.) WELLINGTON, June 9. "It does not seem possible to arrange a tour, mainly owing to finance," Mr S. E. Neilson, the secretary, told the council of the New Zealand Aero Club when the question of an invitation to a team of Australian pilots was discussed. It was decided that the invitation be deferred.