AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 22626, 19 April 1937, Page 9

AVIATION

MRS MNHEY'S FLIGHT EN ROUTE TO SINGAPORE Tresi Asiociation—By Telegraph—Copyright SINGAPORE, April 17. Anxiety was felt for Mrs Bonney when she was three hours overdue from Batavia, but this was allayed when it was learned., that she landed safely at Muntok, Banka Island, where she i is staying overnight. She will leave for Singapore on Sunday. STILL AT MUNTOK. ■ . SINGAPORE, April 18. : (Received April 19, at 11 a.m.) Mrs Bonney has not arrived. Presumably she has not left Muntok. THE " FLYING FORTRESS " ' GIANT MILITARY BOMBER. NEW YORK,. April 17. i : The Army Air Corps announced that I a 20-ton bomber, termed the largest and most powerful military plane constructed in the 1 world, is nearing completion at the Boeing factory at Seattle.' A test flight wil be made within a fortnight, The plane has been under conr struotion for' three years. The details are a military secret, but said it would startle the world in altitude ability. It will be known as the Flying Fortress, and will have complete living quarters aboard. NR HOLLISON'S PLANS ; PARIS, April 17. Mr J. A. Mollison told ‘ Le Soir ’ that he hoped to fly to the Cape on April 25. completing the journey in two days and SCHOLARSHIPS IN TASNANIA HOBART, April 19. (Received April 19. at 10 a.m.) The Minister of Transport announces that the Government intends offering flying scholarships for pupils at high, technical, and public schools. BROADOEHT LEAVES FOR ENGLAND SYDNEY, April 19. (Received April 19, at 11.30 a.m.) Broadbent left Mascot aerodrome at 6.15 this morning on the first stage of his flight .(to England, He hopes to i reach Charleville to-day. The plane has a petrol range of 1,600 miles.