LONG FLIGHTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 March 1928, Page 5

LONG FLIGHTS

ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. CIRCUIT OF EUROPE. TWO WOMEN SET OTTT. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 10.10 a.m. to-dav. BERLIN, March 26. The aviators, Kbehl and Loose, with Baron Huhnefeld as a passenger, have left for Ireland in a Junker aeroplane, with a view to an instant attempt to flv acros's the Atlantic. Received 9.30 a.m. to-day. BERLIN, March 26. Two Americans, Mrs Esther Wanner and Miss Mildred Johnson, have set out alone in a Lufthansa aeroplane on a circuit of Europe, involving crossing the Alps. They may be passengers, in July,' in an all-metal Rohrblaleh threeengined flying boat in an attempt, to cross the Atlantic.

LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES.

REGULATIONS FOR PASSENGER ’■PLANES. Received 10.10 a.m. to-day. LONDON, March 26. The Secretary for Air, Sir Shinuc-I Hoarc, in answer to questions in the House of Commons, said that passenger carrying aeroplanes were subject to the same regulations as other means of transport, with regard to compulsory installation of wireless and lifesaving equipment. He did not think it was advisable to insist that every aeroplane going a thousand miles from Britain should be simlarly equipped Lindberg”s and Hinkler’s flights would have been impossible under such rt* strietions. —A.P.A. and “tSun.”