FIRST AIR STOWAWAY

Evening Star, Issue 19951, 22 August 1928, Page 2

FIRST AIR STOWAWAY

TRAPPED IH BURMA LIGHT AIRPLANE SLOW TO LIFT. On the occasion of some test fliglils recently made in Rangoon in connection with tlie establishment oi a Caicuyu-itanguon-Sinaapote air service an amusing incident when a Burmese coolie became the first recorded air “stowaway. E. C. memo, managing director of the Air Surreys Company, Ud., was preparing for a flight in company with another membar of the company. A throng of keenly interested coolies was about, tor alr P a ara set a good deal of a novelty to the ItatSU One of these asked to be ,'akon mi and was' told to climb in. '■Vhile be vu doing so another coolie managed to get and to conoeal himself in an toemdibly small space. No one saw the act, and the presence of the Burmese was not discovered until the ’plane bad landed after rS ofhalf an hour, to the course.of MttS aviator foun i did not act as usual and that it was slow to lift. Investigation oisoovered anv> . son in the presence of the bidden coolie, whose added weight was too much for the li Se‘S“%>ie will be an important addition to fcransporta'Son faci'ilies n this nart of the East, esixciclly m make the ports on the east ode of the Bw of Bengal are very slow, .requiring three days for the Caloutta-Eangoon run of less than 800 miles, and the same tune from Rangoon to Ptnang. a similar distance. The air station at Point, a few miles down the river from the city, will be the Rangoon stopping place for airplanes, and a now. base is being arranged at Singapore, whence in fho near future other f~ Harrises may, be inaugurated to ports in the flfciiHe aad tamos the islands.