UNIQUE TRIP.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 26 January 1927, Page 7

UNIQUE TRIP.

HERCULES AT DELHI

MOMENTOUS J ORKNEY

CALCUTTA, Jan. 10. The British Air Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, and party, in then; memorable tlirrnt l>v air liner from England, ar-ii-vd at Delhi at noon on Friday, alter competing 6300 miles of their journey from ttie Croydon aerodrome in exactly 63 hours. .... , , , Sir Samuel, on alighting, handed a letter from the King to the Viceroy . - j.n an interview, Sir Samuel *ant that he had tlown in all kinds of climates, and many ot the great cities of the new and ancient world —London. -Pans, Rome, Alexandria. Jerusaeni, Bagdad, and Dribi —and over most of the world * great rivers—the Tiber, Nie. Jordan, Irigns. Euphrates and Indus, over Vesuvius. over 'thousands of miles of desert, and over thousands of miles-of tea a remarkably feat. , On tlie machine while travelling he had worked and held long tales with with the High Commissioner m Iraq, the Administrator in Trans-Jordama. and the Air Force Commander m r As they were arriving early in .Delhi an cxpei iment was .successfully tried of running the air-liner on one engine otilv, instead of three. Two Air Force escorting machines were compelled to land eu route from Karachi, owing to minor engine trouble. ; '