AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 20862, 4 August 1931, Page 7

AVIATION

SEATTLE TO TOKIO THE FORT WORTH REFUELLED Press Association —By Telegraph —Copyright. NEW YORK, August 2. A message from Fairbanks, Alaska, states that the Fort Worth arrived over Fairbanks on Sunday, at (5 p.m. She took on 200 gallons of fuel, and then proceeded westward, while the refuelling plane landed for more gas, and prepared to follow and accompany the Fort Worth to the Behring Sea. LANDING AT FAIRBANKS. VANCOUVER, August 3. (Received August 4, at 10 a.m.) A message from Fairbanks (Alaska) states that the piano Fort Worth landed there at 7.35 a.m. on Monday. MR MOLLISON'S FLIGHT HOPES TO BREAK RECORD. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, August 3. Air Mollison left Karachi for Basra. He hopes to reach England in thirtysix hours less time than Scott took. ARRIVAL AT BASRA. BASRA, August 3. (Received August 4, at 12.20 p.m.) Mollison arrived and is leaving for Athens at midnight. He plans to fly from Athens to London. CAPTAIH CHICHESTER DEPARTURE FROM MANILA. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MANILA, August 3. Captain Chichester took, off for Aparri at about 1 o’clock this afternoon after floating in the bay for four hours, waiting for enough wind to help him to rise with a full load of gasoline. ARRIVAL AT APARRI. MANILA, August 3. (Received August 4, at 10 a.m.) Captain Chichester’s 250-milc flight to Aparri was made across mountains and jungles and Luzon Island, alter which Captain Chichester, who is still wearing a beard, landed his seaplane on Mount Cagavan River. COLONEL LINDBERGH'S FLIGHT VANCOUVER, August 3. (Received August 4, ftt 10 a.m.) Colonel and Mrs Lindbergh hopped off from Churchill (Manitoba) for Baker Lake at 12.45 p.m. to-day. PLANE OVERDUE .SEARCH PARTIES OUT. PERTH, August 4, (Received August 4, at 10 a.m.) A piano containing Captain Snook and Mr Arthur Blako left Manilya Station, in the Gascoyne district, for Onslow on Sunday. They were twentyfour hours overdue last night. Search parties leave to-day. < ATTEMPT ABANDONED NEW YORK, August 3. (Received August 4, at 1.40 p.m.) Mr Victor Lawn, representative of Panghorn and Herndon, to-day received cabled advice from the fliers to the effect that they were abandoning their attempt to better the record established by Rost: and Catty.