FLYING THE ATLANTIC.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 July 1928, Page 8

FLYING THE ATLANTIC.

ATTEMPT IN A DIRIGIBLE. AUSTRALIAN’S SECRET PLANS. .United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association,) • NEW YORK, July 22. Captain Campbell, the Australian flier, is planning a trans-Ativan tie flight in a, 715 foot diirigibe now under feieorefc construction at Highbury, England, states 1 a Boston telegram. Captain Campbell arrived b.v l lie Cedric. and ‘hopes to find here .a “wealthy American woman” willing to accompany him on the flight. liestates (that, he came to the United States ,secretly in an attempt to speed the arrangements in order to steal a march on the Zeppelin Corporation, Corporation, which i« contemplating a trans-At''antic flight within three | weeks. ( Captain Campbell confirmed the rumour that the dirigible, after the New York flight, will return tot England, whence it will undertake a 12-days’ flight to Australia,. sponsored by an Australian syndicate interested in a commercial route for dirigibles exclusively.

Captain Camplioll is returning to England on July 26, and hopois to es•itabliish a. connection with. United States firms for the distribution of pictures taken in conjunction with the flights. I’ll0(1 RESS OF FRENCH ATTEMPT. (Australian Press Association-—United Service.) PARIS. July 2,3. .Lieuts. Mar-rot and Paris, and! -wireless operator Cadoii, who left Brest yesterday in the weavplane La Freigajte for New York, via the Azores, have arrived at the Azores after averaging 150 mires an hour.