AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 20863, 5 August 1931, Page 7

AVIATION

AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND MOLLISON’S ATTACK ON RECORD Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright BASRA, August 4, (Received August 5, at 10 a.m.) Mollison arrived here. Ho was extremely tired, and took off at midnight after a few hours’ sleep. ARRIVAL AT ALEPPO LONDON, August 4. (Received August 5, at 11.15 a.m,) Mollison arrived at Aleppo at 2 o’clock in the afternoon after a night and morning’s flight across the desert. DUTCH AIR LINER ACCIDENT SIX PEOPLE INJURED. AMSTERDAM, August 4. (Received August 5, at 11 a.m.) A Dutch air liner crashed into a signal pole and was destroyed, seriously injuring a boy playing in a field and five women passengers. MILITARY PLANE CRASHES TWO MEN KILLED. ROTTERDAM, August 4. (Received August 5, at 11 a.m.) A military plane crashed, and the pilot and a sergeant were killed. PARACHUTE DESCENT EUROPEAN RECORD CLAIMED. RIGA, August 4.

(Received August 5, at 10 a.m.) Lieutenant Peterson claims the European record parachute descent of 20.400 ft in 15min, during which ho drifted five miles. LINDBERGH'S FLIGHT OTTAWA, August 4. (Received August 5, at 10 a.m.) Colonel and Mrs Lindbergh arrived at Baker Lake at 4 p.m. on Monday. BOMBER CATCHES FIRE OBSERVER KILLED. PRAGUE, August 4. (Received August 5, at 11 a.m.)When flying at 6,0001": a heavy bombing piano caught fire. The pilot parachuted safely, but the observer, who was excited, opened his parachute too early and was killed. The machine fell on the roof of a distillery, which, with an adjoining shop, caught fire. ITALIAN ACE'S DEATH PRACTISING FOR SCHNEIDER TROPHY. ROME, August 4. (Received August 5, at 11 a.m.)It is now revealed that Flight Captain Monti was Hying one of tho two new Fiat machines, capable of doing 100 miles per hour, specially constructed for tho Schneider Trophy race. Salvage efforts have proved fruitless. The machine is lying at a depth of 300 ft.

[A message received on August 3 stated Flight Captain Monti, who participated in the Schneider Trophy in 1929 and who was recently engaged in high-speed tests, was killed while flying a seaplane, which fell into Lake Garda, His body has not boon recovered.] MISS AMY JOHNSTON FLIGHT TO JAPAN. LONDON, August 4. (Received August 5, at 11 a.m.)A message from Manchuli states that .Miss Amy Johnson (low over tho RussoChineso frontier, making for Harbin.