AVIATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 October 1928, Page 7

AVIATION

FIVE LIVES LOST.

(Auntralian Press Association.) (By Cable—Presß Assn.—Copyright.)

NEW YORK, October 7.

At Detroit five persons were killed late on Sunday, when two aeroplanes collided. Three were men and two were women.

298 MILES AN HOUR.

LONDON, October 7.

Flight Lieutenant Greig has had another trial, and he easily attained a speed of 298 miles per hour, though he only was up for half an hour. The | new plugs used were so heavily car-; boned in the half-hour that they had : to be scrapped. U.S.A.’s WAR DIRIGIBLES. (Recd. October 9,2 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 8. ‘ ‘We make war on no nation, but we should be ready, and able to fill with subsequent regret, anyone attacking us,” said Brisbane Hearst, in an editorial, congratulating the Government on placing an order for two dirigibles, each carrying fifty tons of explosives and modern war gas, would be able to unleash a hundred fast destructive planes, which would leave with Uncle Sam’s compliments, a visiting card in Europe or Asia, that would not soon be forgotten.

RIVALRY WITH SHIPS

(Recd. October 9,2 p.m.) LONDON, October 8.

“Unless shipowners utilise aircraft as an ally,” said Sir S. Brancker, in his presidential address to the Institute of Transport, “they will find therein a definite inevitable rival, depriving them of some of their most valuable traffic, namely mails, and passengers who are prepared to pay for speed.” He suggested that the shipowners future programmes should arrange to carry first-class mails and speed passengers by air. This would enable them to build slower, but more comfortable and profitable ships for ordinary passengers and freight. Oversea railways which had been constructed in order to create traffic, offered lessons for the development of the Imperial air routes. Governments must subsidise them until fully established. He pointed out that regular commercial services world-wide flew 22,887,000 miles last year, compared with 1.170,000 in 1919. The routes regularly covered 73,300 miles and every extension decreased overhead charges. Transport at present would not be profitable because it could not deal with heavy freights and thirdclass passengers, who are the mainstays of most railways and shipping lines. He believed that probably a weekly air service to India would pay at no distant date. Among future possibilities would be liners equipped as aircraft carriers.

ZEPPELIN’S TRIP.

BERLIN. October 8

To-day’s successful trial of the Graf Zeppelin attained 75 miles hourly. Tn the trans-Atlantic flight, she will carry apparatus for receiving wirelessly telegraphed pictures, including frequent weather charts drawn up. by experts. The post office at Friedrichshafen is inundated with postal packages from world-wide, including the United States, for inclusion in the airship's fifty ton air-mail to America.