FLYING NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 13092, 13 February 1937, Page 5

FLYING NEWS

LINDBERGHS’ TRIP EN ROUTE TO CAIRO U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright). PALERMO,. Fob. 11. The* American aviator, Colonel Chas Lindbergh, .and Mrs 'Lindbergh, took off Jor Tripoli to-day en route for Cairo. Friends say that the flyers 1 did not divulge their plans, blit are apparently continuing the flight foutlnward or eastward; from Cairo, probably to South Africa.

NAZI MILITARY PLANE CHASTEN, FIVE KILLED AND OTHERS INJURED V (XJ.P.A. by /Chxi Tel. omyrfght). BERLIN, Ebb. 11. A military plane struck high tension wire and crashed in flames in a busy Berlin street. Tho live occupants were killed. Burning petrel seriously injured a number of pedestrians.

AMERICA TO AUSTRALIA AND BACK. MRS. EARHART’S PLANS. HJ.PA. bv Elec. Tel. Cciyyrisbi). (Received Feb. 12, 7.10 p.m.). NEW YORK, Feb. 11. Mrs. Earhart informed the Austra lian Associated Press that she will fly to Australia, departing early in March from Oakland; She will tou h at Honolulu .thence Howland Island, and thereafter Lao. New Guinea and Port Darwin, turning back immediately and proceeding along the usual Imperial Airways route to India, thence to Dakka (Africa), Natal (Brazil). Mexico and Miami.

Captain Manning, veteran merchant marine officer, will act as navigator across the Pacific only and will leave her when thev reach Australia.

OVER MILLION FLYING PASSENGERS.

fU.P.A. by Elec- I’el. Copyright). WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. Mr. Vidal has announced that commercial airlines carried 1,020, • 000 passengers in 1933, an increase of 73 per cent over 1935. The air lines totalled - twenty-one.