French Fliers to Attack Non-stop Distance Record

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 July 1933, Page 7

French Fliers to Attack Non-stop Distance Record

ATLANTIC CROSSING

INCLUDED Received Friday, 8.30 p.m. NEW YORK, July G. The French fliers Maurice Rossi and Paul Godos start their preparations tomorrow morning to hop off from Floyd Bennett field, shortly, across the Atlantic in an attempt to break the world’s non-stop distance record. With 800 gallons of fuel the total weight of the plane will be nine tons, twice the amount any other ship has ever lifted from the field. The fliers declared that they will aim at a distance record, with no definite objective. * Finding in City of Liverpool Crash Inquiry NO DEFINITE EVIDENCE AS TO CAUSE OF FIRE (British Official Wireless.) Received Friday, 7 p.m. RUGBY, July G. The Air Ministry announces that the accident to the City of Liverpool, the Imperial Airways liner whieh f crashed near Dixmudc last March, has been investigated by the Belgian authorities. They find that fire broke out in the central portion of the aeroplane, that the theory the fire originated from the engines is practically ■ untenable and that while possible causes could be suggested, these are speculations only and the evidence does not admit of any definite cause being ascribed. The inspector of accidents for the British Air Ministry also finds that, on the e\ddence available, it is impossible to reach any conclusion as to the actual origin and cause of the me which gave rise to the accident. It seems clear that none of the engines fired or developed any defect, that the fuel tanks did not burst or spring a leak in the air, and that while the pipe-lines themselves were virtually destroyed, all pipe connections, nuts and taps were in order. The electrical accumulators had not been fired. The Air Minister is satisfied that nothing could bo gained by further inquiry.

West Australian Pilot off for England FIRST HOP BROOME TO BATAVIA BROOME, July 7. The veteran West Australian Airways pilot, J. Woods, left at 2.49 a.m. Sydney time in the Spirit of Western Australia for Batavia, the first hop in a flight to England. Almost the whole population of the township were present to see Woods take off in the brilliant moonlight. General. Balbo’s Squadron Reaches Iceland REYKJAVIK (Iceland), July 6. The Italian flying-boat squadron under General Balboa has arrived.