AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1929, Page 5

AVIATION

AIR RECORD

FOR SUSTAINED FLIGHT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) NEW YORK, May 25. At Port Worth the commercial monoplane “Port Worth” set a world re(ord for a sustained refuelling flight on Saturday night passing by an hour the record of 150 hours, 40 minutes, 15 seconds, established in- January last by the army monoplane “Question Mark.” . Pilot Reginald Robbins and his assistant, James Kelly, refuelled for the sixteenth time and are hoping to remain aoft for another fifty hours. Robbins is an automobile mechanic who learned to fly while making himself useful about the airfield. Kelly was a cowboy who forsook a Texas ranch and obtained a pilot’s license only seven weeks ago. A single Wright Whirlwind motor had operated for 500 hours before the flight. Robbins refused to have it rebuilt. THE HIGHEST YET. BERLIN, May 27. Neumofer, living a Junker aeroplane at Dessau, attained a world’s altitude record ,reaching 41,025 l'eet. RECORD FLY ENDS. NEW YORK, May 20. A Fort Worth'(Texas) message states the, monoplane Fort Worths landed at 4.7 pail, central standard time after an endurance flight of more than a wsek. It took off on ’May 19th and at |.33 a.m. was driven down after cruising through stormy weather more by weariness, from the violent vibration Olathe ’plane, than any mechanical difficulty., A SPEED RECORD. PARTS’ May 25. . Commandants AVeiss and Gitier flow live thousand kilometres in twenty-six hours forty-one minutes at n average snood of 185 kilometres hourly, heating the world’s speed re•ord for a similar distance established bv the Italian Ferrarin De Ip rote of 139.77 kilometres hourly.