AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 19765, 16 January 1928, Page 5

AVIATION

ATTEMPT THAT FAILED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, January 14. Clarence Chamberlin and Roger Williams failed in an attempt to establish a new world’s record duration flight. They were forced to descend to-day after being aloft for 51h 54min. NIGHT FLYING IN AMERICA NEW YORK, January 14. _ The Senate has received from President Coolidge a request for 475,000d0l for additional air navigation facilities next year. The Commerce Department would use the funds to provide 2,500 more miles of lighted airways for night flying, and improvement in radio and air mail facilities. HONOR TO LOST AVIATORS OTTAWA, January 13. The Canadian Government has named newly-discovered lakes in North-western Ontario after men and women who were lost in transoceanic and other flights last summer. The first was named Lake Doran after Mildred Doran, who perished in the Honolulu flight, and others named after Princess Lowenstoin, Tully, Medcalf, Minchen, Bertand, Hamilton, and Rayne.

LONDON TO CAPETOWN DUTCH AIR LINER CHARTERED. LONDON, January 14. (Received January IG, at 1.30 a.m.) Mr Van Leer Black, the American millionaire, has chartered a Dutch air liner to fly from London to Cape Town and back. He will take the pilots who accompanied him in his Dutcli Indies flight.—A. and N.Z. and ‘Sun’ Cable. CAPTAIN KINGSFORD SMITH ENDURANCE FLIGHT POSTPONED. SAN FRANCISCO, January 14. (Received January 16, at 1.30 a.m.) Captain Kingsford Smifh’s_ endurance flight has been postponed till Monday owing to tlie wet runway. FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA ABANDONED. SYDNEY, January 16. (Received January 16, at 11.15 a.m.) Word has been received that Captain Kingsford Smith and his companions have abandoned the flight from America to Australia owing to lack of finance.