DE PINEDO.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 December 1925, Page 5

DE PINEDO.

TO' FLY AROUND’ THE WORLD. EAGER FOR NEW ADVENTURES. ROME, Nov. 10. Commander France»sm De Pinedo, just .returned from a 33,000 mile .round trip to Tokio, is eager for new adventurer in the air. Experiences between Tokio and Rome have turned his black ha.ir white. In an interview De Pinedo confirmed his intention 'to fly around the world, north and south and east and west and touching the five continents. “My next flight will be equal in distance to twice around the world,” lie said. “I expect to circle the world in two directions, landing on each of the five continents. 1 will use the same type of machine I used on the flight to Tokio, modifying and improving it slightly as is dictated by the experience I have just had. Some mouths will be required for preparation. ’’ What was: the principal aim of the Tokio flight De Pinedo was asked. “I wished,” lie replied, “to demonKtrate that a hydro,plane could accomplish. any voyage and that such a plane could remain long on the water like a ship. This T have proved to my satisfaction.

“During the rtrip of '3.3,000 miles) my machine passed through every sort of weather from tropical torridity to cold, wind and rain. The was especially marked on the return -trip, when J Hew from Tokio in sixteen days. 1 was able to fly iin all weather, which is noteworthy because I bad to pass through monsoon-ridden territory at the worst- -season.”