AVIATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 May 1930, Page 5

AVIATION

DUTCH INDIES SERVICE.

[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]

SYDNEY, May 5.

The representatives of a Dutch Company who have arrived in Sydney announce that a passenger and air mail service between the Dutch East Indies and Australia is commencing at the end of the year. The time occupied by the Australian mails in reaching Britain and Europe will thus be halved. Huge Fokker aeroplanes, which will carry a ton of mails and 12 passengers, will be used for the flight between Sourabaya and Darwin, which will occupy about five hours, and from Darwin to Sydney it will take about four days.

FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA. LONDON, May 5. Miss Amy Johnson, left Croydon Aerodrome this morning, in brilliant sunshine, on her flight to Australia. A small group of friends gave her a cheering farewell. I A TB R . A few sandwiches and packet chocolate are all that Amy Johnson carried in the way of food. She hopes to reach Vienna t(j-night. S[he has a parachute strapped to her back, and a spare propeller lashed to the fuselage. VIENNA, May 5. Amy Johnson has arrived. SHIERS AND SMITH. SYDNEY, May 5. Advice has been received that Smith and Shiers, who attempted the flight from Australia to England, and who crashed near Bangkok, are • returning to Sydney by steamer. HINKLER’S NEXT VENTURE. (Received May 6, Noon). • London, May 5. Hinkler is proposing to begin a flight to Australia this week, in a monoplane amphibian of his own design. Mrs Hinkler may accompany him. PARACHUTIST KILLED.

(Received May 6, 1 p.m.) PARIS, May 5.

A parachutist named Langer, making his seventy-eighth descent from an aeroplane, at Gelderm, failed tosecure aeroplane, at Gelderm, failed to secureIv fasten the body belt. He became detached from the parachute in midaid and fell like a stone to earth, meeting a horrible death in the sight of thousands of spectators.