“HUMAN BULLET”

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 April 1931, Page 5

“HUMAN BULLET”

LONDON-ROME RECORD FLIGHT AVERAGE 174 MILES AN HOUR [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, April 22, Captain Frank Hawkes, who set out from Heaton Aerodrome early to-day to fly to Rome and back in one day, made a forced landing when 150 kilometres south of Paris, to-night. He was not injured, and will complete the flight to-morrow. He reached Rome about noon, having travelled at an average speed of 174 miles per hour. LATER. . “Wireless” Hawkes, known as the human bullet, covered the 900 to Rome in 322 minutes. Lack of petrol compelled him to land on return from the flight. , ANOTHER LINER CRASHES LONDON, April 22. The triple-engined twenty-seater Airways liner “City of Edinburgh” crashed at Croydon aerodrome, caught fire, and was destroyed. : The pilot was uninjured. - . t . , ■ ■ ... GERMAN >RESEARiQH. . ( BERLIN, April 22. There was an important stage in the evolution of air transport when the Juno Fourth, an aeroplane driven by heavy motor oil, was tried out successfully after twenty years’ research at the Jankers’ laboratory. l \ The machine has a six-cylinder engine of 720 horse-power, and increases its flying range by 47 per cent,’and tlie loading capacity by 100 per cent.,, while the working cost of the Diesel engine is 65 per cent, below that of a petrol engine. FLYING BOAT’S RETURN . RUGBY, April 22, One of the Iris flying boats which left England on March 24, on a flight to Egypt and back, returned to Plymouth to-day. The second boat is still at Saint Nazarene. KINGSFORD SMITH’S JOURNEY. ", BRISBANE, April 23. The Southern Cross arrived at Cioncurry, two hours ahead of schedule.