WOMAN’S LONGEST FLIGHT

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 15, 12 October 1927, Page 11

WOMAN’S LONGEST FLIGHT

CROYDON TO AUSTRALIA TO START TO-DAY Rugby, October 10. The longest flight ever undertaken by a woman will begin on Wednesday morning, when Mrs. Keith Miller will leave Croydon aerodrome as passenger in a small two-seater Avro Avian light ’plane to fly to Australia. The pilot will be Captain Lancaster. The • flight will be in stages across Europe to Africa, and will follow the Imperial Airways route to India. Lady Ryrie, wife of the High Commissioner for Australia, will christen the machine Red a few minutes before the start. — British Official Wireless. HOLLAND TO BATAVIA IN TEN DAYS Amsterdam, October 10. Prominence is given to the Dutch airman Koppen’s flight with mails from Holland to Batavia in ten days, nine actual flying days. The newspapers emphasise the possibility of reducing the flight to a week. This means relays of maclunes with the co-operation of Britain, whose interests would also . be served for the greater part of the journey. FRANCE TO BUENOS AIRES Paris, October 10. The airmen Coste and ebrix took off at Le Ifouget at 9.40 a.m. for the first stage in their flight to Buenos Aires. London, October 10. The French airman Coste’s first landing will be at St. Louis, Senegal. After that he flies to Pernambuco and on to Buenos Aires. The sea route is roughly 200 miles further than from Ireland to Newfoundland, though good weather is reported over’the entire route. Sir Samuel Hoare, defining the Air Ministry’s attitude to Trans-Atlantic flights/said that he had no power to prevent them, and would be reluctant to take such power, as it would be an unwarrantabe interference with liberty. Should there be a premature institution of regular passenger flights, it would be a different matter. SMITH’S PACIFIC FLIGHT » Seattle, October 10. Lieutenant Kingsford Smith’s airplane, the Southern Cross, took off for Oakland, va Fort Lewis, where it will re-fuel. The airman, Salzman, piloted the ’plane over this part of the trip. CAPE TO CAIRO SERVICE COBHAM TO MAP ROUTE ' • Rugby, October 10. Sir Alan Cobham, who flew from Cairo to Cape Town and Lack, will leave England shortly for Rhodesia, with the object of establishing there a systematic air service. In an interview he said he hoped to do much survey work from the air. So far the routes across Rhodesia have been flown more or less haphazard. He wanted to map them out properly, and consider the question of aerodromes. It would be one step towards setting up a real Cape-to-Cairo air service.—Brit-, ish Official Wireless. GOLDEN, EAGLE’S CREW NAVIGATORS ASKED TO SEARCH (Rec. October 11, 7.30 p.m.) Suva, October 11. The High Commissioner for the Western Pacific has received a telegram from the British Consul at Honolulu stating: “The family of the pilot of the Golden Eagle aeroplane, which participated in the CaliforniaHawaiian flight in August, and others, believe that the airmen may have overshot Hawaii, and probably reached one of the British islands southwest of Honolulu. The attention of fishermen and other navigators is called to the matter, in order that a search be made. Many rewards have been offered, totalling 15,000 dollars.”