FLIGHT ROUND WORLD

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 2 March 1935, Page 5

FLIGHT ROUND WORLD

Roscoe Turner’s Hopes of 400 m.p.h. in Stratosphere POST’S MACHINE “FIXED” STEEL FILINGS IN OIL

(United Frea» Association —By JElectrlo Telegraph Copyright.}

NEW YORK, Feb. 28

A message from Pittsburgh says that Colonel Roscoe Turner, a competitor in the centenary air race, has announced that plans are under way and a special ’plane is being built for him to make a flight round l the world at the equator next autumn. The machine will be capable of a speed in excess of 400 miles an hour in the stratosphere, through which it will make its 25,000 miles flight. Clyde Pangborn and Ruth Nichols are expected to accompany Colonel Turner, whose reason for making the flight is that “it’s never been done before.”

• Mr "Wiley Post has announced that an investigation disclosed the presence of nearly two pounds of steel filings and emery powder in the oil in his engine when he was forced down in the desert 125 miles from Los Angeles on February 22 during an attempted stratosphere flight to New York. He has asked for a Federal inquiry a s he felt that the ’plane had been tampered with at die instigation of “another pilot.” He regards the act as “the rottenest thing” he ever met with in flying. “When we get Winnie Mae’s engine back together again there won’t be any opportunity for anyone to do any more monkeying with it, you can bet that,” said Mr Post.