AVIATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 August 1929, Page 7

AVIATION

ZEPPELIN’S PROGRESS. (Australian Press Assn.) (By Cable—Press Assn—Copyright.) NEW YORK, August 2. A report from Ponta Delgada, San Miguel Island, the most easterly of the Azores, states that the Zeppelin is believed to have passed there at 9.35 (eastern standard time), which, if authentic, indicates that the. airship is averaging better than ninety miles an hour since leaving Cadiz. AIRMAN IMPRISONED. (Times Cables.) LONDON, August 2. Flying Officer Thomas was courtmartialled and sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for drunkenness., while making an 'unauthorised landing between Henslow and East Church on May 3. The evidence showed that he landed at Hendon, consumed liquor, and crashed after his departure. Aircraftsman Mason jumped out and was killed.

“FLIGHTY” DUCHESS.

LONDON, August 2.

The sixty-three- year old Duchess of Bedford started from Lympe at dawn, in an attempt to fly to India and back in a week, in a monoplane named “Spider,” piloted by Captain Barnard and Bob Little. She hopes to do the journey in four hops; first to Sofia, second to Aleppo, third to Bushire, and fourth to Karachi.

TOURVILLE ’PLANES.

WELLINGTON, August 2.

Sir Joseph Ward has given the necessary permission to allow of planes on the French cruiser Tourville being flown here, this permission being necessary as New Zealand is foreign soil. It is likely, therefore, that the ’planes will be seen in the air when the cruiser visits Wellington.

WAIRARAPA CLUB.

MASTERTON, August 2.

At a meeting, under the auspices of the Wairarapa Progress League tonight, at which Major Isitt, ActingDirector of Aviation, spoke, it was decided, to form an Aero Club in Wairarapa, such club to work in conjunction with the Wellington Aero Club. A provisional executive was set up and seventeen, intending members enrolled.