AVIATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1928, Page 5

AVIATION.

LYONS’ NEXT FLIGHT. LOS ANGELES TO LONDON. (By Telegraph—Press Association). NEW YORK, September 27. Mrs Miller, Captain Lancaster, and Captain Lyon (Pacific flier) upon their ,arrival from London, told the Australian Press Association that they were planning to fly next year from Los,, Angeles to London, and to return via New York, where they will make one stop at each trip. Their machine is now under construction. It ■s a tri-motored all-metal monoplane >f conventional design, with the exeetpiotLbf the forward motor/ which is of four-hundred horse-power, while the wing motors are of two hundred horse-power each.- The Radio Corporation of America is preparing the radio equipment. Captain Lyon will be in ■ommand, and Captain Lancaster and Mrs Miller; will assist. The plane will (ly the flags of England, Australia, and America. , , s . . - ( The fliers expressed great admiration for Kingsford Smith, due to his flight f/om Australia to New Zealand.

ATLANTIC FLIGHT IN A MOTH. , ‘• M : : 'L .’ V I • ST, JOHNS (Newfoundland), September 27. Flight-Commander MacDonald has arrived here from England, bringing a Moth plane, in which he proposes to attempt a solo flight across the Atlantic. LANDING SPOT SLAB. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 28. The following is the inscription on the slab laid at Wigram aerodrome to mark the spot where the Southern Cross landed:—“Here the Southern Cross first touched New Zealand soil, after a pioneer aeroplane flight across the Tasman Sea, September 11th, 1928.” Then follow the” names of the four airmen and the words:— They came on the wings ai the morning.” This stone was laid by Sir Henry Wigram. READY TO START. CHRISTCHURCH, September 28. All is in readiness at Soekburn for the departure of the Southern Cross for Blenheim at 2.30. Ihe machine is in perfect order. Big crowds have already assembled to farewell the aviators. Sir John Salmond (British Air Chief) will attend, as will Sir Heaton Rhodes. At 2 p.m., Sir Henry Wigram will turn the first sod in connection with the placing in position of the stone slab that is to mark the spot at which the Southern Cross landed, on completion of her Tasman flight. The aviators will assist at this function.

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The airman had a great send-off, getting away shortly after the allotted time.