ROUND THE WORLD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 28 April 1922, Page 7

ROUND THE WORLD.

A PROJECTED PLIGHT

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT Received April 28. 1.35 p m . LONDON, April 27. Officers undertaking the round-the-world flight are :_^iajor W. T. Blake, "the Daily News' aeronautical correspondent, accompanied by Captain Norxnan Macmillan. Both flew to Morocco in 1921. Major Blake, interviewed by the Star, said that he expected to start ■at the end of May, and was awaiting JsS^e Air Ministry's permission to bor-row-one of its special amphibian" machines. The Vickers and Napier Companies, and the Shell and Wakefield On Companies, who backed Sir Ross Smith -are supporting the project. The proiposed' route was via France, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, ■ Burma, China, Japan, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States, Newfoundland, 'Greenland, Iceland, and Scotland. The total distance was 30,000 miles and the longest sea passage 800 miles. The ilight is expected to be completed in "two months.