AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 20239, 29 July 1929, Page 9

AVIATION

LOUIS BLERIOT A FLUSH! TO ENGLAND \, Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 27. Louis Bleriot, who first flew the Channel in 1900, commcmoratiycly flew from Le Bourgot to Dover in the latest Bleriot monoplane, accompanied by two navigators and a pilot. Eleven Air Force aeroplanes mot the Frenchmen hear Dover dill's and escorted them to Swingate aerodrome, whore crowds wildly cheered the bcantUul landing. The minor, the French Consul, and fcir Belton 'Branekncr (Director of Civil Aviation) welcomed the ilyers in the meadow where Bleriot first landed after a flight of 97min, compared with to-day’s flight of LMnin. Bleriot said that with eight refuelling stations in the Atlantic planes would proceed Ironi Edition to Amciica in 19B) as easily as they do from London to Paris nowadays.—Australian Press Association. A GOOD FLIGHT. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. ROME, July 27. A naval seaplane which was piloted hv the Under-Secretary for Air (Major Maddclcim; and carried Signor Mussolini, landed at Bimini alter a flight along the coast via Naples, Messina, and Brindisi. The plane covered 1,200 miles in lOh GOmin.—Australian Press Association. AUSTRALIAN MACHINES CRASH. TWO PASSENGERS INJURED. SYDNEY, July 28. Two aeroplanes which were crossing the Blue Mountains crashed and were badlv damaged. The pilots escaped, but a man and his wife, who were passengers, were seriously injured. .MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. SYDNEY, July 29. (Received July 29, at 10.10 a.m.) Further details of the mountains plane crash show that although severely injured Neil Stewart and his wife had a miraculous escape from deatli when their plane was smashed to matchwood against a free. The occupants of the second plane landed in a swamp uninjured, but the plane was totally wrecked. 350 HOURS IN THE AIR. NEW YORK, July 27. The .St. Louis Robin aeroplane. Jiad been 350 hours in the air at 9.17 on Saturday night, and it was still flying. —Australian Press Association-United Service. GRAF ZEPPELIN. BERLIN, July 27. The Graf Zeppelin made .a suecesslul four hours’ tripl Hight round Lake Constance. She carried twenty-five passengers.—Australian Press Association. CRASH WHILE TAKING OFF.

PILOT UNINJURED

WASHINGTON, July 28 (Received July 29, at U a.m.)

A message from Tacoma states that the monoplane City of Tacoma, piloted by Lieutenant Harold Bromley, crashed during the take off on a scheduled nonstop flight lo'Tokio to-day. The plane was damaged, but Bromley was not hurt.—Australian Press Association.