MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1928, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service

AIR CRASH. >: LONDON, July 13.

An Imperial Airways Viekens-Vulean baggage aeroplane during a test flight at Croydon crashed in flames. Four were killed, .including Hall, Airways Inspector and Director and two girl typists, and two others, including pi 1 ton and Captain Stafford were injured.

U.S. NAVAL PLANE records. NEW. YORK, .Tilly 12. At Philadelphia, a. naval seaplane, P.N. 12, Number 2, set six world records for her typo. She was piloted by Lieut. Gorton, who set the endurance record of sixteen hours 39 minutes 15 2-ssecs. for planes carrying a “pay load of two thousand .diagrams, and speed records for two thousand, and one thousand thousand kilograms, and speed records records for those loads and a distance of 2150 kilometres on the course covered in 43 consecutive trips.

KETCH. ASHORE. VANCOUVER, July 13. The ketch Oaxaca, owned and sailed by Hancock, backer of the Southern Cross, went ashore on the rocks on Friday at Wrangell Narrows, and is high and dry. Fifteen passengers and thirty-five of the crew are believed to be safe. WEiSTRALLAN AIRWAYS. LONDON, July 13. The Westralian Airways have called up £60,000 to order four Do Hn.yiland Hercules j»ir liners for the Perth-Adc-laide route. They will be similar machines to these used on the Ba.trnCairo route, on which in eighteen months there was only one failure in schedule time, owing to sandstorms. Each has three silenced engines. If two peter out the plane would not come down before thirty miles. Tlio maximum speed is 130 miles and the cruising 110 hours. ....