AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 21945, 4 February 1935, Page 9

AVIATION

VICTIMS OF GERMAN CRASH PreM Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, February 2. The de Ruluft victims included Baron Marschall von Biebierstem, leader of the Airsport Association, and Pilot Hermann Westphal, who had flown a million kilometres on this route. Snow and darkness obliterated all landmarks and the liner was burnt three hours before the victims could bo extricated. LIVERPOOL AS AIR JUNCTION (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 1. At the inauguration at the Liverpool airport of the air mail service to the Isle of Man, the Lord Mayor said io was to be the forerunner of an extensive system of international air mail and passenger services, operating from Liverpool, which he foresaw I would in the future be the great air junction of the north. GOODWILL FLIGHT TO JAPAN ' SYDNEY, February 3. Squadron-leader T. W. White, a New Zealander, is contemplating a flight from Australia to Japan on a “ goodwill mission.” He has asked the postal authorities for permission t» carry an official air mail. MRS MILLER HAS FORCED LANDING LONDON, February 3. (Received February 4, at 1.30 a.m.) Mrs Keith Miller, who is on a “ commercial traveller’s flight ” to Cape Town, left Niamey (French West Africa) for Cotonou and encountered smoke from bushfires. Her pe'.rol was exhausted, and she was forced to land at Calavi. Swerving to avoid some natives she collided with a tree and broke the back of her machine beyond local repair. Mrs Miller was uninjured, and is bitterly disappointed.