DISTANCE FLYING

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 207, 16 August 1927, Page 7

DISTANCE FLYING

BERLIN TO NEW YORK. GIANT AEROPLANE TAKES OFF ONE CRASHES AT BREMEN. Berlin, August 14. The aeroplanes Bremen and Europa have left for America. Enough mail matter was offering to fill the three giant ’planes, despite the charge of £1 5s for each item—(A.P.A. and “Sun" cable.) Later. The aeroplane Europa landed at Bremen. The occupants were uninjured. but the machine suffered damage.—(A. and N.Z ) FRANCE ANNOYED. Paris, August 14. The departure of the Germans occasioned chagrin in Paris, where an East to West trans-Atlantic flight is regarded as a prerogative of French aviation, —(A. and N.Z ) CLARKE’S HONOLULU TRIP. ENDS AT SANTE MONICA. New York. August 14. A message from Los Angeles states that Frank L. Clarke, flying the biplane Miss Holydale, landed at Sante Monica on Saturday night after starting from Oakland airport early in the afternoon, apparently for Honolulu. Before leaving Oakland. Clarke filled the ’plane with 500 gallons of gasolene and told the other aviators he woud see them at Honolulu—(A. and N.Z.) (An overnight San Francisco message stated that Frank Clarke, with a relief pilot Charles Babb, stole a march on the other Dole race contestants when, at 1.33 this afternoon, they hopped off for Honolulu in their biplane. Clnrke had not signed the voluntary agreement to postpone the flight as had the other fliers.)