SCHNEIDER CUP.

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 84, 3 January 1929, Page 9

SCHNEIDER CUP.

TEN COMPETITORS FRENCH, ITALIAN, BRITISH, AND AMERICAN } UNITED STATES ENTERS AT ELEVENTH HOUR (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) London, January 1. The United States entered for the Schneider Cup contest by cable a few minutes before the closing. The entries for the Cup are now ten, France, Italy, and Britain each with three machines, and the United States. WEATHER REPORTS FOR AIR LINERS (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) , London, January 1. The international weather reporting system for guiding air liners, now operative, divides Europe and North Africa into zones, from which meteorological information is collected in brief intervals by control towers and wirelessly telephoned to flying liners. HURLEY’S SEARCH FOR AEROPLANE MAY RETURN TO AUSTRALIA BY CAR ’ London, January 1. Captain Frank Hurley and his partners, Messrs. Moir and Owens, scoured Europe searching for a suitable ’plane in which to return to Australia, but were unable to obtain one. Moir and Owens desire to fly back in a D.H. 50, and Hurley is negotiating with a British firm to return to Australia by car. He would traverse the battlefields, Germany, Switzerland, Central Europe, Turkey, including Gallipoli, Iraq, Persia, India, Burmah, and the Dutch East Indies, taking films en route. It is proposed to return to England in September, and to fly back to Australia in an attempt to beat Hinkler’s record. NEW BRITISH AIR CHIEF London, January 1. Sir John Salmond has been appointed Air Chief Marshal in succession to Sir H. M. Trenchard, who is retiring. ’PLANES FOR AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE Melbourne, January 2. It is. understood that a Board of Inquiry is being appointed to investigate contracts for the building of aeroplanes for the Defence Department, in connection with whiclraif official has been suspended. The inquiry is likely to be protracted pending the return of Colonel Brinsmead, head of the Department, who is visiting the United States.