AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1930, Page 5

AVIATION

CUNNINGHAM’S PLANE.

(.United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] V;l WEI.TEVKEDEX, August 11. A trial flight and an examination of Ounninghani’s plane showed a worn crank i\x!e and a choked oil.pipe. New parts have been ordered, , BACKS AT-sCHICAGO. RUGBY. August 10. Flight Lieutenant Atcherley, the British Schneider trophy pilot, will represent Britain at the national races at Chicago on August 22nd. He has been invited to visit America by Lieutenant "Williams, the American Schneider Trophy pilot, who has been in Europe dnHng the last two weeks, conveying an invitation to representative pilots Ti;pin Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany. Lieutenant Atcherley, with the German pilot,, Captain Loslie, has left Southampton torday, taking with him his own 1 machine. He has been granted special leave by the Air Ministry. After an official reception in New York, the pilots will fly in international formation to Chicago, Lieut. Atcherley leveling. ,11.100; \ iS' : '"W ■

' ’ progress in Canada. T-'. OTTAWA, August 11, A'ttiessnge from Toronto states RIOO arrived ■ there, on Monday morning after traversing Lake Ontario in . a north western. .direction and flew low ove‘r,'the business district. She left Montreal on Sundfiy evening passing over‘lnis' c-ity en route. ' PACIFIC FLIGHT ENDS. . ’ t AS'RESULT OF BAD CRASH. I-H VANCOUVER., August 11. A' Pacific flight via Aleutian Islands by Bob -Wark accompanied by Eddie Brdwn, both of Tacoma, U.S.A., came to ?t.’ halt here to-day. When the aeroplane was making a landing to refuel, it ',was > .almost totally demolished. JWownv was seriously, but not 'critic-' allyv -injured. ■ .KINGSFORD SMITH. CONDITION. SATISFACTORY.. (Received this , day at 10.30 a.m.V . LONDON,. Aug.,. 11. K ( ipgsford Smith’s condition is satisfgpiory ~ and lie leaven Middelburg Friday. : He. has not. abandoned, .the idea of a flight, to Australia'. . ,