FRAULEIN BEINHORN

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 89, 30 March 1932, Page 4

FRAULEIN BEINHORN

STORY OF LONG FLIGHT. BERLIN TO DARWIN. Darwin, March 24. Fraulein Elli Beiuhoru, who arrived yesterday- on a flight from Berlin, said to-day that she took up flying in November, 1928, but this was her first long flight. She is now 24. Sho left Berlin on December 4, and flew via Budapest, Sofia, Stamboul, Aleppo, Bagdad, Bushire, Karachi, Delhi, Agra, Calcutta, Rangoon, Bangkok, Singapore, and Sourabaya to Darwin. She spent Christmas at Delhi, and felt lonely, as it was her first Christmas away from home. From Calcutta she flew round Mount Everest.

Her plaus are still uncertain, but she will fly to Sydney, and theuce travel by ship to South America. She will fly across that continent aud up the eastern coast.

She had only minor mishaps on the trip. A severe storm at Alexandria delayed her. She landed at Aleppo in the dark, and made a forced landing in Persia. She was unable to find the Rangoon aerodrome, and so landed on a rice field. When she was taking off in the morning people ran to the plane, and, while dodging them, the ’plane fell into a holo on the field and was slightly damaged, but she was able to make repairs. All the naval and military camps she came to gave her all the assistance possible, but she had carried a largo supply of spare parts. She had spent a sleepless night before flying across the Timor Sea, but had no fear when in the air, although there was no pleasure, she said, in flying across a large stretch of water in a land ’plane.