AIR RECORDS
MAJOR BLAKE'S FEATS. DEMONSTRATION OF POSSIBILITIES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 2. (.Received May 3, at 11.5 a.in.) Major Blake broke, seven world records yesterday. He flow from London to Paris and back twice in one day, covering I,COO miles between 7 o’clock in the morning and 5.40 in tho afternoon. Interviewed, Major Blake said that his chief object was to show that civil aviation is commercially possible without subsidies by means of getting a higher daily mileage out of the machines. Daimler’s, he said, intended henceforth to rim two cross-Channel services daily with one machine and a fresh pilot on each return journey.
Major Blake added that he was considering the question of taking «• third man with him round the world. Ho had invited Sir Keith Smith (o go, but the latter, after tho tragic chock c.i' tho Brooklands accident, felt that ho would not 'oe justified in accepting the oiler, though he was keenly interested in the project.' The Air Ministry has consented to lend an amphibian mudiino for the flight.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
[Major W. T. Blake, after Sir Ross Smiths death, announced that ho would undertake a round-the-world flight, and that his companion would be Captain Norman MacMillan.]
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Evening Star, Issue 17958, 3 May 1922, Page 6
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204AIR RECORDS Evening Star, Issue 17958, 3 May 1922, Page 6
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