Frenchmen Hop Off From New York

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 August 1933, Page 3

Frenchmen Hop Off From New York

HUGE LOAD OF PETROL TAKEN ALOFT I Received .Sunday, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, Aug. o. A trans-Atlantic flight "to nowhere" was .started at 4.41 p.m. on Saturday |by Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos, | French aviators, who are attempting to i set a distance record. They planned Ito reach the Knglish coast and keep going. They are well supplied wit* food and carry wireless equipment. The Radio Marine Corporation re* ceived a message on Saturday night from the steamer Lord Kelvin, southwest of Cape Race, Newfoundland, saying that it had heard the French fliers getting a compass bearing from the Cape Race wireless station. Their plane is named "Joseph Lebrix," in honour of the French flier who was killed in 1931. The plane carried 1770 gallons of gasoline, the heaviest load ever laken aloft by a plane in the Lmted States, Nearing the Coast of France Received Monday, 12.45 a.m. PARIS, Aug. 6. The French trans-Atlantic fliers, Codos and Rossi, have wirelessed that they are 625 miles from the coast of Brittany. Another Atlantic Flight in Progress BRITISH ASPIRANT FLYING IN STAGES Received Sunday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 5. John Grierson started from Hull to fly to New York via Scapa Flow, Iceland and Greenland in a seaplane with a Moth engine converted from the aeroplane wherein he made his record flight from India. A later-message states that Grierson has arrived at Scapa Flow. Hopes to Beat Gape to London Record SWISS AVIATOR ON THE WING Received Sunday, 7 p.m. CAPE TOWN, Aug. 5. The Swiss airman, Carl Nauer, who flew from Zurich to Australia, left Cape Town at dawn, hoping to lower Amy Johnson's record to London. Taking off, he said: "I want to be in London just after breakfast on Tuesday."