AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1929, Page 5

AVIATION

TO' FLY PAOIPIC. (United PrM« Association—By Electric Teiegrapli—Copyright). SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28. Harry Senada, a Japanese aviator, ,on - his arrival here, announced that his 1 plan is to fly-the Pacific from Yokohama to- Honolulu, with two- companions. ;He ! will first visit the aviation fields of the United States and Europe. ' •

JKINGSFORD SMITH. ;tf" ' NEW- YORK, Sept. 28. ■ Squadron. Leader Kingsford Smith has arrived , hor, aboard the liner .■ ,mi VNieuw’’ from Amsterdam. He has :announced that he will make a flight ' . from Englftnd'to New York in 1930. •; : He stated . that the. Southern -Cross . was 1 at preterit-being reconditioned at i ' the Fokker 'Works in' 1 Holland,' .• iand, thou gh no definite date had been set, ri ' lie expected to ! make the flight early ./next year. •' _ ’’V j. •. Kingsford Smith' is staying in New ' York for about five days, after which Z he is proceeding to San Francisco to /fe"./' 'fSv, „\. , J 1 ——r —r . AUSTRALIAN RACE DELAYED. : ; ~ ■■; SYDNEY', Sept.. 29. •>, Tbw start of; the Sydney „to Perth v - air 1 race <postponed till. Mon- : ? v day, /owing; tb bad..-,-yisibjlity and, rain. ■ . A slorm- was!.-yesterday reported oyer the ‘ route ton the,.first stage to Junoe. ;.K-‘.:' (Receiver!bthis day, at noon.) •.. i \ -SYDNEY, Sept. 30. _ ,i> ; ; , :-Seycinteen ,J -planes left. Mascot this morning- on. the, first-, of the '•HV'> Sydney }.-to -Perth race, yyhich ..is. .to be sH.V-'-flbWji- in vtwelyq stages, two daily, no h, stage to -be, jniore than two hundred yy*.'!'-; ' and - fifty miles.' •

FEAR FOR AIRMEN, yr * - J ' PARIS; Sept. 29. •.There is anxiety for Costes and Bellecontc. J.t is certain their petrol Was exhausted early to-day. 4 It is surmised they have come . down in Siberia/ and have no means of oommutiictffcigK They were ‘sighted only ouiJe "in ueriiiany. v

\PACIFIC CROSSED. BY RUSSIAN PLANE. ’/.NEW YORK, September 28. A 1 message from iSeward( Alaska) states that the Russian trans-Pacifie aeroplane landed there on Friday afternoon. ■ \r'y ; _ , . • AN AIR CRASH, y (Received .-.this day at 9.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 29. ■ A, message from : Abilene, Texas,’ ■■y - states Josephine Callaghan, Ameiica s only armless aviatoriax was killed in ~ a crashMtfhiie flying alone. .She oper-ated-(Special, controls, by her feet and fearlessly, flew -thousands.of miles. The machine: nosedived at .two thousand teetA.l ’...• , .