ROUND THE WORLD

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 42, 13 November 1936, Page 9

ROUND THE WORLD

Pangborn Plans Non-stop Flight

(Received November 12, 9.15 p.m.)

Montreal, November 11,

Clyde Pangborn. the aviator, announced that he expected to make a non-stop flight around the world next summer, starting and finishing at New York. He plans to refuel in the air with the aid of Russian bombing planes at Moscow and planes in China, also at additional emergency refuelling stations elsewhere. He has been promised co-operation of Amtorg, the New York Russian trading agency, which will cut expenses. Later advice states Pangborn is flying to Montreal to-day from Newark in a Burnell! transport plane, in which he expects to fly the Atlantic shortly in order to make a cold-weather test of the plane in a direct flight from Canada to England for the Canadian Car and Foundry Company, Limited. The plane is equipped with a radio apparatus, the “Simon radio guide,” which permits the pilot to ascertain his bearings from aqy radio station.

The Burnelli Aircraft Corporation, headed by Mr. Vincent Burnelli, has for many years experimented with aircraft having fuselages of unusual construction. The Burnelli transport machine of lateet type is a high-wing monoplane with two Pratt and Whitney Hornet engines supercharged to develop 680 h.p. at 10,000 ft. At that height the machine has a cruising speed of 205 miles an hour. Its normal range, carrying 14 passengers and two pilots, is 1240 miles. The centre structure of the machine is wide and deep enough to hold the cabins and to this are attached the outer wing sections and the long tail booms, with the mountings for the two engines on the lending edge, giving the machine an unorthodox appearance but high performance.