AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 19713, 14 November 1927, Page 5

AVIATION

SURVEY OF AFRICA LADY COBH AM TO ACCOMPANY HUSBAND. (British Official News.) Pres* Association—By Wireless—Copyright. RUGBY, November Lady Cohham will accompany Sir Alan Cohham on his flight of 20,000 miles round Africa, which he is beginning next Thursday from Rochester. She is going as a member of tho crew of six, which tho Hying boat ‘‘ Singapore” will carry, and, in addition to assisting her husband in keeping detailed records of tho flight, she will supervise the cooking for the crew.

CAPTAIN GILES

WEATHER DELAYS START. SAN FRANCISCO, November 11. Captain Giles has announced the postponement of his flight until the conditions are more favorable. The United States Weather Bureau warned him that to attempt to fly to Hawaii would ho suicidal, and suggested at least a two-day delay.

FREISGH PLANE CRASHES

AVIATORS INJURED. PARIS, November 11. A message from Chaumont says that two aviators, Mcdaots and Vcrhaegen, who left Courtrai in tho plane _ Heine Elisabeth this morning, to make a non-stop Right to Leopoldville, Congo, crashed at Ecrt-sur-Aubc. Both were injured.

CRUISE OF FI.YIHG BOATS

ARRIVAL AT BUSHIRE. DELHI, November 11. The Southampton Hying boats have arrived at Bushirc.

DEATH OF BRITISH PILOT

EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. LONDON, November 13. (Received November 14, at 1.30 a.m.) At the inqupst on the victims of the East Griinstpd air crash the evidence showed that the pilot lost his way owing to a deranged compass when trying to return to Croydon, and ran short of petrol. The pilot and his companion had a dramatic telephone talk in midair. The former insisted that the latter should jump first, and gave him careful instructions how to use the parachute, then tried to drop off himself when in a nose dive, with the result that the parachute did not open in time.

[A pilotless Bristol fighter aeroplane flow onwards over East GVimstcad after two members of the Air Force had jumped out at a height of 2,O(JUft. The pilot’s parachute did not open, and Ins body was found with the hand still clutching the ring. The observer reached the ground safetly.]