AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 22783, 4 May 1931, Page 11

AVIATION

FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA CAPTAIN STACK'S ATTEMPT Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright. LONDON, May 2. . Captain Stack left Lympne at 4.22. THE FIRST HOP. ‘VIENNA, May 2. Captain Stack arrived here and later departed for Constantinople. ANOTHER STAGE. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 2. Captain Stack arrived at Yeshilkeuy aerodrome in record time. He will start for Bagdad at dawn. DELAYED BY ENGINE TROUBLE. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 3. (Received May 4, at 10 a.m.) Captain Stack is delayed by engine trouble. ATTEMPT ABANDONED. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 3. (Received May 4, at 12.30 a.m.) Captain Stack says that the aeroplane’s condition is too uncertain to cqntiuo. He will return to England prior to making a fresh attempt. AUSTRALIAN AIR MAIL , RANGOON, May 2. The Australia to England air mail arrived from Alorstar and will leave for Akyab to-morrow. ARRIVAL AT CALCUTTA. DELHI, May 3. (Received May 4, at 10 a.m.) The Australian air mail plane, City of Karachi, arrived at Calcutta this afternoon. • THE SOUTHERN CROSS. AKYAB, May 3. The Southern Cross arrived here and transferred her mail to the City of Karachi, which left for Calcutta. PLANE OVERTURNS SYDNEY, May 3. While a Moth aeroplane was searching Botany Bay for the body of a Tioy who was drowned through the overturning of a canoe the plane hit the water and turned upside down. The pilot, O. H. Lodge, and a member of the Aero Club were strapped to their seats and were in danger of drowning, but they managed to release themselves and were rescued by a fishing launch. FAIRBAIRN AT GLONCURRY PLANE DAMAGED. BRISBANE, May 4. (Received May 4, at 10 a.m.) The airmen, Fairbairn and Shenstone, arrived at Cloncurry. They will be delayed for several days there. owing to damage to the plane when it struck a ditch in lauding. THE AUTOGYRO KING ALBERT HAS FLIGHT. . BRUSSELS, May 3. (Received May 4, at 10.30 a.m.) King Albert of Belgium is the first monarch in history to venture on a flight in the dangerous looking autogyro “ windmill,” in which Lord Stonehaven to-day made a surprise flight to Belgium. When he landed King Albert was most excited, and grasping Lord Stonehaven’s hand, cried: ‘‘What a wonderful invention. 1 would like a flight myself.” The Queen nervously intervened: “It is not safe,” but the King was not deterred, and borrowing Lord Stonehaven’s helmet, told the pilot to take him up to see Brussels from the air. The machine returned in ten minutes, landing without the usual taxi-ing. The pilot declared that the machine was very safe, and that nobody had succeeded in killing himself in it since it was invented in 1925. CAPE TO LONDON FLIGHT-LIEUTENANT ROSE’S FLIGHT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 2. (Received May 4 at 11.30 a.m.) Flight-lieutenant Rose, in a British light aeroplane, in his attempt to fly from Capo Town to London in four and a-hnlf days, arrived at Bulawayo yesterday from Cape Town after covering 1,100 miles in 12Jh, He left before midnight, hoping to reach Tabora by noon and Kisunni by nightfall.