AVIATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 July 1932, Page 7

AVIATION

WORLD-FLIERS CRASH. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] MOSCOW, July 8. Griffin and Mattern, engaged on the world flight, crashed at Minsk. Both airmen are alive, but their machine is wrecked. LATER. Mattern and Griffen are injured, Mattern seriously. i BERTRAM AND KLAUSMANN. WYNDHAM, July 8. The rescued German aviators continue to improve. Bertram is now attending to his own correspondence, he having borrowed a typewriter. Supplies of clothes have been provided by the local residents. Klausmann, at one stage, was quite rational. Then he temporarily lost his reason. He is still very thin, but is eating well. Arrangements are being made to take both men to Perth by a West Australian Airways aeroplane, when they are fit to travel. Klausmann will then be placed under •a specialist. The airmen’s seaplane will also be salvaged. PASSPORT CERTIFICATES WELLINGTON, July 8. ' Aviators’ certificates, which will act as passports for airmen in overseas countries, will be available in future to pilots in New Zealand, who hold endorsed A licenses, this being decided on by the Council of the New Zealand Aeroplane Club to-day. The certificates will be similar to those issued by the Royal Aero Club, to which the New Zealand Club is affiliated. A charge of five shillings will be made. A resolution was carried that the Director of Air Services be requested to amend the Regulations regarding the endorsement of A pilot licenses, with a view to promoting the greater, efficiency of A pilots before their licenses are endorsed, allowing them to take up passengers not for hire, the amendment desired being that all advanced dual and cross country flying with B pilots, subsequent to the granting of their A license be allowed to count towards the requisite forty hours necessary for their endorsement, provided that the pilot does at least 30 hours solo. A proposal by Mr B. Shiel, Aviation Officer to the Vacuum Oil Company, that a team of New Zealand pilots should visit Australia, or alternatively, an Australian team visit the - Dominion, with the object of fostering a closer spirit of co-operation between the two countries was approved. Mr Shiel is to be asked to investigate the possibilities of the suggestion being carried out during his visit to Australia.