AVIATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 March 1930, Page 7

AVIATION

. SOUTHERN CROSS FOR SALE. (By Cable—Press Assn—Copyright.) SYDNEY, March 14. Lieut. Ulm to-day stated the primary object of Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith’s visit abroad was to sell the old Southern Cross, which is lying at Amsterdam. If he is successful the' flight across the Atlantic will be cancelled. WYNDHAM TO LONDON. SYDNEY, March 14. Dave Smith and Shier’s flight to London begins on March 25. The attempt to fly from Wyndham to London will be essayed within twelve days. ESSENDON TRAGEDY. MELBOURNE, March 15. As all the controls were in working order after the accident, it is believed that Ward, the pilot of the plane in which he and Neville were killed at Essenden on Thursday, fainted in midair.

FRENCHMEN’S BODIES FOUND. BRUSSELS, March 14. ■ The bodies of the French airmen, Roux Caillot and Dodemont, who were flying home from Madagascar and have been missing for nearly three months, have been found with their ’plane in the great Kasai Forest in the Belgian Congo. N.Z. NON-STOP FLIGHT. DUNEDIN, March 14. Piloting his Gipsy Moth plane, Captain J. D. Hewitt arrived at Dunedin at. 6.20 this evening from Wellington, the journey having taken exactly six hours. He will leave at daybreak tc morrow morning on an attempt to make a non-stop flight to Auckland, which he hopes to accomplish in about, ten hours. The flight will not be made- on a direct airline, but the airman will fly via Christchurch, Wellington, Palmerston North, and thence over the King Country, following the general line of the Main Trunk railway. DUNEDIN, March 15. The weather conditions and visibility were excellent when Captain Hewitt started from Green Island at 6.50 this morning in his Gypsy Moth, on a non-stop flight to Auckland. With good weather, he expects to make the flight, in nine or ten hours. He is carrying 65 gallons of petrol.