AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1929, Page 5

AVIATION

NON-STOP FLIGHT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) :• . PARIS, Nov. 30. ■ • The French Aero Club has officially C recorded-Costepi flight from Le Bour- . get to ..Manchuria in September, a • distance of, 41)41 miles, as the world's .'.record for a non-stop flight.

i ' WILKINS’ PLANE. I 'DAMAGED;vdN LANDING. ‘ hV " ' LONDON I ,' ''Nov.; 29. -. Sir. H- ;W-ilhins, ..in a message from Deception Island, dated November 27th. states: Cheeseman, flying the monoplane, had the season’s first accident. He was not hurt, but the tail of the machine was skinned, and the -underpiti’t of., the fun Huge was turn off as lie landed on a pile of rocks. The machine is still upright. The landin gfield is unavoidably narrow, and it -.'•vis lined on either side with the rocks that were removed for last year’s run.iwaji. A cross, wind sprang up during the flight, making the', landing most difficulty-A: 1 margin- of three feet would Laye erpbled the puonoplane to clear•Ullid’ obstructionJ'l'Repairs', were undertaken immediately, and we expect.To ■he readywfor a flight on the evening of November 28th. . j ...

R.lOl HOUSED. R.lOl moved from the mooring mast and was housed in the hangar without incident, after ’ three-quarters of an hour’s work. It is understood it will he deflated, overhalued, and examined with a view to modifications increasing the lifting capacity.