AVIATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 September 1934, Page 7

AVIATION

SMITH’S PLANE. [BY CABLE —PBEBB ABBN. —COPYBIGHT.] ' SYDNEY, September 12. Sir C. Kingsford Smith has officially been advised that he will be able to leave Australia on September 25, even if information certifying the airworthiness of his monoplane has not then arrived. The Civil Aviation Department anticipates that the American Department of Commerce will shortly cable a certificate of airworthiness for race purposes. Smith is delighted at the intimation. He says: “On that certificate depends the amount of petrol which I shall be permitted to carry.” U.S.A. COMPETITORS. NEW YORK, September 12. Turner and Pangborn, when testing an air mail aeroplane which they are using in the Centenary race, flew nonstop from Seattle to Los Angeles, a distance of 1180 miles, at an average speed of 204 miles an hour for five hours and twenty minutes. They will attempt a trans-Continental flight to lower the existing record. CRUISE IN ARCTIC. RUGBY, September 11. Two large flying boats are preparing to leave Mountbatten, Plymouth, tomorrow, on a training cruise to Greenland. The first stage of the flight will carry the flying boats via Oban to Faroes, 750 miles. On the second day they will fly 500 miles to Iceland, and on the third, provided the sea is sufficiently clear of ice the remaining 400 miles to Greenland. During the flight, observations will be made with a view to placing an air route to America, by way of the North Atlantic, each flying boat to be manned by a crew of six.