FLIGHT ROUND WORLD

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 182, 29 April 1922, Page 7

FLIGHT ROUND WORLD

PLANS FOR ANOTHER ATTEMPT. London, April 27. * The “Pall Mall Gazette” says that, notwithstanding the disastrous ending of Sir Rosi Smith’s project, ’lans are well advanced for another flight round the world. The pilot will be a former R.A.F. officer now employed l>y the Air Ministry, and a specially-designed flying boat of huge dimensions is to be built. The route proposed is westwards, starting from Lisbon via the Azores, across North America, and thence via Honolulu, Manila, Calcutta, ai}d Cairo.—-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. April 28, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 27. The officers who are undertaking the round-the-world flight are Major W. T. Blake, aeronautical correspondent of the “Daily News,” and Captain Norman MacMillan, both of whom flew to Morocco in 1921. Major Blake, in an interview, said he expected to start at the end of May. Ho was waiting for the Air Ministry’s permission t.o borrow one of its special Amphibian machines. The Vickers and Napier Companies and the Shell and M akefield Oil Companies, which had backed. Sir Ross Smith, were supporting the project. The proposed route yas by way of France, Italy, Greece, Egypt? Mesopotamia, India, Burmah, China, Japan, the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States, Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland, and Scotland. Jhe total distance of this route is 30,000 miles. The longest sea passage is 800 miles. The flight is expected to occupy two months. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.