ENGLAND TO INDIA

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 137, 14 June 1927, Page 10

ENGLAND TO INDIA

BOWLERS TO GO -ROUND

ENGLAND

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, 13th .Tune. It is anticipated, if the weather is favourable, Plight Lieutenants Carr and Alackworth will leave the Cramwell aerodrome on their attempted nonstop flight to India to-morrow morning Another important test flight is duo to begin to-morrow, when bombing machines of the Eoyal Air Force will commence flights round England, which will continue for forty-eight hours, ■tour bombing squadrons will 7be repre-' seated by eight machines each, and in ah there will be 64 pilots. Guns will bo carried, but no ammunition. The cir-' cular route to be covered is about four hundred miles long. The test is designed to estimate the relative proficiencyof bombing squadrons and to carry out training in a most practical way. In the House of Commons Sir Philip bassoon, Under Secretary for Air, replying to a question, said that Lindbergh's achievenemt had been noted with admiration and interest, and the merits of monoplanes for long distance flights would doubtless be considered He pointed out that aircraft used in recent long distance flights by the Royal Air Force had been in all cases purely service machines.