AIR FLIGHTS

Evening Star, Issue 19616, 23 July 1927, Page 4

AIR FLIGHTS

BRITAIN TO INDIA FURTHER ATTEMPT CONTEMPLATED. (British Official News.)' Press Association—By Wireless—Copyright. RUGBY, July 21. Sir Philip Sassoon (Under-Secretary for Air) stated that a further attempt to make a non-stop flight to India might be made at any time, when the air staff was satisfied witli certain tests yet to ho carried out, and when the meteor logical conditions were favorable. ROOK’S ADVENTURE. PROGRESS IN INDIA. DELHI, July 22. • (Received JTuly 23, at 1 a.m.) Rook has arrived at Agra.—-A. and N.Z. and ‘Sun’ Cable. [Dennis Rook is flying solo to Australia from England in a Moth aero-, plane. He left on May 21, and on Juno 21 he crashed at Karachi. On account of this accident and the difficulties of the monsoon season, it was stated that ho had abandoned his flight. Since that date nothing has been heard of him.] AMERICA TO AUSTRALIA THENCE TO .WELLINGTON. AMERICAN ARIMAN’S PLANS. NEW YORK, July 22. (Received July 23, at 10.30 a.m.) A Detroit message states that Mr Giles gives the details of his proposed flight to Australia as follows Start August 11,; first stop, San Francisco. Then, compeAig in tho Dole .race, he will make a start for Hawaii, afterwards proceeding to Brisbane, then on to Sydney and Wellington. , Mr Giles’s trip is financed by Air W. Rosewarno. a Detroit contractor. Mr Giles was born in Australia. His ’plane is named “ The Bluebird, and is equipped with Wright motors and it has storage tanks for 600. gallons of gasoline. ' , . ... Tho longest leg of the journey is Hawaii to Brisbane, 4,809 miles, which is the farthest non-stop flight ever yet attempted. Commenting on the trip, Mr Giles said his main object was to promote better feeling between Australia and America. “1 am also a competitor for Mr James Dole s 20,000 dollar prize for tho &an I 1 ranciscoHonolulu flight.”