AVIATION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 28 April 1922, Page 8

AVIATION.

ROUND THE WORLD

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT Received April 28, 9.50 a.m. LOLNDON, April 27. The Pall Mall Gazette states that, notwithstanding Sir Ross Smith's tragedy, plans are well advanced for another air flight round the world. The pilot will be a former R.A.F. officer, now employed by the Air Ministry. A specially designed flying boat of huge dimensions is to be built, and the route proposed is westwards, starting from Lisbon, thence to the Azores, across ' North America, Honolulu, Manilla, Calcutta, and Cairo.