AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 22638, 3 May 1937, Page 9

AVIATION

RUMANIAN PRINCE'S FLIGHT ATTEMPT ON GAPE RECORD Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright . LONDON, May 1Prince Constantin Cantacuzene, aged 27, of Rumania, flying a Caudron Renault, with a top speed of J 237 mile* an hour and a radius of 3,700 miles, departed from Hatfield in an attempt to break the England to Johannesburg and England to the Cape records. He plans only two stops, the first south of the Sahara and the next in Central Africa. He will sleep for brief periods, using an automatic pilot. MR BROOK RETURNING ARRIVAL AT JOHANNESBURG. JOHANNESBURG, May 1. Mr Brook is on his flight hom» and has arrived here. He is making aa unexpectedly early attempt on the ra« cord owing to favourable weather. MR BROADBENT'S PROGRESS A CALL AT BASRA. BASRA, May 1. Mr Broadbent arrived at 6.20 p.m.. local time, having left Karachi at 7.5 a a.m., local time. MRS MOLLISOH IN AMERICA PREPARING FOR LINDBERG RACE. INDIANAPOLIS, May 1. Amy Mollison said she would fly froij Paris 'to New York in July in prepare tion for tho Lindbergh race. PROGRESS REPORTS LONDON, May 2. (Received May 3, at 11 a.m.) Broadbent flew over Bagdad. Brook landed at Broken Hill and later took off for Kisumu. Prince Cantacuzene made a forced landing at Algiers owing to mechanical trouble, but later continued.