AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 22032, 18 May 1935, Page 15

AVIATION

THE SMALLEST PLANE EFFECTIVE DEMONSTRATION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright VIENNA, May 17. An Austrian gliding expert, Robert Kronfield, flew from Croydon to Paris in four hours in the world’s smallest aeroplane, a British five horse-power Drone, on six shillings’ worth of petrol. NO COMPULSORY DRILL LONDON, May 17. Compulsory air drill for civilians Is not contemplated at present, said Sir John Gilmour in the House of Commons. ' MEDAL FOR SCOTT AND CAMPBELL-BLACK LONDON, May 17. (Received May 18, at 10 a.in.) Scott and Campbell-Black will receive the British silver medal for aeronautics for their achievement in the Centenary race at the Royal Aeronautical Society’s meeting on May 30. BELGIAN AIR FORGE BRITAIN COMPETING FOR CONTRACT. LONDON, May 17. (Received May 18, at 10 a.m.) Britain is bidding for supremacy in the construction of war planes in a world contest for fighters organised by the Belgian Government. The machines will he judged at Brussels on July 12, and the prize will he a contract to reequip the Belgian Air Force, which at present consists chiefly of British planes. France, America, and Holland are also <■ competing. Britain’s hushhush entry will be a Fairey “ flying fort,” with a speed of 250 miles per hour. * • FLIGHT ROUND AUSTRALIA BRISBANE, May 18. (Received May 18, at 11 a.m.) Mr Broadbent arrived at Rockhampton last evening, having covered 1,930 miles in fourteen hours. Ho hopped off for Darwin at 1 a.m.