AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 19699, 28 October 1927, Page 7

AVIATION

MELBOURNE TRAGEDY i CADET PILOT KILLED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. . ' MELBOURNE, October 27. An aeroplane, piloted by E. Seach, aged 24, a cadet-" pilot at Point Cook Flying School, who was tho solo occupant, crashed near Healesville. , It burst into flames as it fell, and Seach was incinerated.. Ho was apparently frying to land when the engine stalled, and the machine nose-dived from the height of 200 ft. MISS ELDER SUFFERING FROM INFLUENZA. LISBON, October 26. Miss Elder is in bed suffering frbm influenza. Complete rest has been ordered, and her departure has been postponed indefinitely. THE SOUTHERN CROSS LIEUTENANT POND AFTER RECORD. SAN FRANCISCO, October 26. It is understood that Lieutenant Pond will attempt to break the world’s record for a sustained flight overland with the Southern Cross before he begins his trip to Australia. ATLANTIC GROSSINGS ' DANGEROUS, CONDITIONS. . LONDON, October 18._ ‘'Anybody who attempts an Atlantic flight under existing conditions is obviously mad,” declared tho Secretary of State for India, the Earl of Birkenhead, who was the chief guest at the banquet of the Newsvendors’ Benevolent Institution last evening. “It is a rash and dangerous exploit, and does not advance aerial locomotion in the slightest,” '