DE PINEDO’S PLANS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 January 1927, Page 9

DE PINEDO’S PLANS

AGAIN ALTERED. 'I‘R IP TO BE TEIST OF SPEED. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT. Received 12.10 p.m. to-day. ROME, Jan. 21. ; Consequent upon Signor Mussolini's request to use the next flight Pji m j ar ” ily to demonstrate .speed possibilities, Major De Pineclo liras altered his plans. His route will be triangular from Italy to Soutlr America, to San Francisco, British Columbia, and back across the Atlantic, via the Azores and Lisbon. He expects to complete the whole flight of 25,000 miles in two months. TO SINGAPORE FLIGHT PROPOSED. MELBOURNE, Jan. 13. Important developments in aviation, particularly in the Royal Australian Air Force, are foreshadowed for the coming year. Although the settlement of the actual details necessarily has been postponed until the return of the Minister for Defence, Sir Neville Howse, the main lines of the future are already set out. The chief among them is a proposal to increase the force by an additional squadron of machines; the replacements of existing machines; the completion of a new depot at Laverton, and an increase in the personnel to man the new squadron. The proposed flight of British seaplanes from England to Singapore is another event scheduled for the current year, and it is hoped that when the Minister returns he will be able to announce that a complementary flight from Australia to Singapore to link up with the British airmen has been decided upon.