AVIATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1935, Page 7

AVIATION

COMET’S FAILURE. [by CABLE PRESS AflflV. COPYRIGHT.] CAIRO, August 9. . Campbell Black, who left Hatfield aerodrome in the Comet machine, Boomerang, in an attempt to create a new record for a flight to Capetown arrived here at 5.30 a.m. He has abandoned the flight owing to engine trouble. SAFETY RESEARCH RUGBY, August 9. The National Physical Laboratory has undertaken investigation of several problems connected with visibility and safety in aircraft. An attempt is being made to discover means of aiding the landing of aircraft, when the aerodrome is obscured by fog, and of warning aircraft in the neighbourhood of high obstructions, undei poor visibility conditions. Experiments will he made al. selected aerodromes. A monoplane has been specially equipped for the purpose and the ground installation includes radio beacons.

U.S.A. ARMY CHIEF. WASHINGTON, August S. Major-General Benjamin Foulois. the Chief of Army Corps, has retired, at his own request, thus terminating his controversy with the House of Representatives’ Military Affairs Committees, which had charged General Foulois with making an improper purchase of aeroplanes, and with misinforming the Committee by saying that Armv aviators were capable of flying the mails in the winter of 1934, when President. Roosevelt cancelled civilian air mail contracts, aftei which several Army flyers were killed.