AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 21065, 31 March 1932, Page 9

AVIATION

R.A.F. EAST AFRICAN FLIGHT MACHINES ARRIVE AT HELIOPOLIS (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, March ij. The Royal Air Force machines arrived at Heliopolis to-day on the conclusion of their East African Fight. The flight of the 216 bomber transport squadron, which has flown from Heliopolis to Somaliland and is now on its way back, left Khartoum for Chaschxn el Girba to-day. SEAPLANES LEAVE FOR SINGAPORE DARWIN, March 30. The three British Southampton seaplanes have left for Singapore. JAPANESE FLYER KILLED NEW PLANE CRASHES. NEW YORK, March 29. Captain Yoshinori Nagoya, an Imperial Japanese army reserve flyer, was killed instantly when a new 4U,000d0l aeroplane in which ho hoped to make a non-stop flight from the United States to Japan crashed near tho Floyd Bennett airport, a few seconds after she had departed on a trial flight. The body of the pilot was removed just before the gasoline tank exploded, completely destroying the craft by fire. IMPERIAL AIRWAYS THE ENGLAND-INDIA ROUTE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 30. (Received March 31, at 11.30 a.m.) The flying boats of Imperial Airways on the England to India service, when operating in both directions above the Eastern Mediterranean, will pay regular weekly calls at the port of Limasol on the Islaim of Cyprus, weather permitting, after April 17.