NECK=BREAKING FLIGHT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 August 1928, Page 7

NECK=BREAKING FLIGHT.

ACROSS ATLANTIC IN SINGLE MOTORS PLANE,

* Australian Prvss Association—United Service.'. PARIS. Aug. 5. /The Polish' aviators Idsikowski and Kuba.la. who left L© Bourget at 5.40 a.m. on Friday on a trans-Atlantic: Might, via the Azores) Islands, hope to reach New York in 42 hours. .The distance is 5000 miles. ’

Their bipianp carries 1550 gallons of petrol and if adverse winds cause, too Heavy a consumption, the fliers may he forced- to land at Halifax. Idzikowlski is the first to follow the southern instead of the northern .grand circle. The .Berlin newspaper “Tageblatt” describes the venture as a neck-break-ing flight with a cne-motred aeroplane. The machine can remain aloft for 4S 1 roll's, but it is not. equipped with wrire-Jo-f-is. The fliers’ food consists of two chickens, oho: elate, bananas, brandy, and two' bottles of champagne,. The .steamer .Ama.kmra i©ported that m latitude 46deg. 26in. north, and longitude 20deg. 40min, west, an aeroplane approached from the westward, encircled the ship at a distance of bn.M a. mule and a, height of 500 feet, and swiftlv departed northward without signalling.

•PLANE GOMES DOWN IN MIDATLANTIC. AVIATORS RESCUED UNHURT. Received 11.35 a.m. to-day. WARSAW. Aug. 5. The Polish aviators Idzikowiski and Kubaila c-aine down in mid-Atlantic.' The airmen were saved by the Geiman ship Samos, and were not hurt, hut their machine was destroyed.