AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 20613, 13 October 1930, Page 9

AVIATION

TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT BOYD AND CONNOR Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 11. Captain Errol Boyd and Lieutenant Connor were forced down at Tresco, in the Soilly Isles, owing to the discovery that the petrol pipe was chocked. Tho defect was discovered three miles off the Scilly Isles, and the airmen immediately made for the nearest island. If the trouble had developed five minutes earlier of later, they would have crashed into the sea. They landed on the Tresco beach at 4.30 most easily. The Columbia, which was in the air for twenty-four hours, made good time owing to the following wind. Boyd and Connor will proceed to Croydon to-morrow. October 11. Captain Boyd and l Lieutenant Connor have landed at Croydon. MAY PLY TO AUSTRALIA. LONDON, October 11. Captain Boyd and Lieutenant Connor are considering the question of continuing their flight to Australia, and will decide withm two days. PERILOUS MOMENTS. LONDON, October 12. (Received October 18, at 9.40 p.m.) The Atlantic flyers were cordially welcomed. Boyd said that after leaving St. John’s they struck head winds and rain squalls. It was the wildestlooking dawn he ever Saw. They had been flying blind for most of the night. Connor found the position, but the plane was being driven south by northern storms. The rear tank was not functioning properly. It contained 100 gallons of petrol, which was dumped into the sea before the landing at Tresco. They had discovered the difficulty five hours previously. It was an anxious time, as by the time the Scillies hove in sight practically no petrol remained. HILL AT SINGAPORE MAKING GOOD TIME. SINGAPORE, October 11. Flight-lieutenant Hill arrived at 5 o’clock this evening after a rapid flight of nine hours from Jask. In an interview ho said; “ All has gone well since leaving London.” He said he hoped to beat Captain Hinkler’s record by increasing his speed and lengthening the stages. A LEAKING TANK. ALLAHABAD, October 12. (Received October 13, at 11.50 a.m.) Hill landed with a leaking tank, otherwise it was an uneventful flight from Karachi. Ho expects to arrive at Akyab at daylight to-morrow, and will proceed to Bangkok the same day. Ho anticipates that with luck he will complete the flight in twelve and a-half days. ANOTHER STAGE COMPLETED. LONDON, October 12. (Received October 13, nt 10 a.m.) Hill arrived at Allahabad at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, and took off for Akyab at 10 at night. HINKLER’S TIME BEATEN. DELHI, October 12. (Received October 13, at 10 a.m.) Hill, who was incorrectly reported as having arrived at Karachi on Friday, landed there on Saturday, after a flight down the Persian Gulf. Hinklers time was just beaten, but Miss Amy Johnson’s record stands. MATTHEWS REACHES KARACHI SINGAPORE'October 11. Captain .Matthews, who was forced down before reaching Siiigora, has arrived nt Karachi, KINGBFORD SMITH DEPARTURE FROM ATHENS. ATHENS, October 11. Kingsford Smith left for Aleppo at 6.20 this morning. ARRIVAL AT BUSHIRE. LONDON, October 12. (Received October 18, at 10 a.m.) Kingsford Smith has arrived at Bushire. CRASH OH HONEYMOON AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE. CAPE TOWN, October 11. The American millionaire, Mr Marshall Field, and his wife, who are spending a leisurely honeymoon flying from England to Kenya, crashed at Niraulo, on the Uganda border. Tho party, who were unhurt, motored to Juba, and" hope to resume tho flight to-day. COSTEB AND BELLONTE EARNINGS IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, October 11. Tho earnings of Captains Costes and Bellonte, who started a transatlantic flight on September 1, will total 100,000 del. They are returning homo on Friday, having received Co,ooodol as goodwill for the flight, 25,000d0l for the Dallas flight, and the remainder for newspaper articles and radio broadcasts. AUSTRALIAN PILOT'S DEATH REPORT OF INQUIRY. MELBOURNE, October 12. The Air Accidents Investigation Committee, reporting on the dontli of David Smith, states that there was no evidence that Smith was not medically fit, but ho had not taken the precaution to affix a safety belt. The machine was of an experimental type* for which, as it was being flown within a three miles’ radius of the aerodrome, no per-

mission or certificate of airworthiness was necessary. [Dave Smith, who recently attempted a flight to England, was killed at Mascot Aerodrome on September 17. His aeroplane was seen to be iii trouble at a height of 300 ft. Smith leaped out, ahd his - mangled body was recovered fifty yards from the spot where the machine crashed in pieces. Smith, who was quite a young man, was trying out a speedy Tiger Moth for an air pageant,- and it is believed that ho was caught in the engine and hurled out at a height of 300 ft. His body struck and smashed a four-inch beam in an old shed, then crashed to the ground. The machine was buried nearly five feet in a local nursery adjoining the' aerodrome. Smith and Shiers attempted to make a flight to England lnst_ March, hilt were forced down in a rice field near Bankok on April 25, the flight being abandoned.] MISS AROHA CLIFFORD TRAINING FOR AUSTRALIAN FLIGHT. LONDON, October 11. “ I have not secured my father’s consent yet, but I hope to leave for Australia before Christmas,” said the New Zealander, Miss Ai'oha ' Clifford, who is busy at tho Stag Lane Aerodrome doing an engineering course as part of her training for solo flight.