AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1935, Page 2

AVIATION

NEW AIRWAYS LINER. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright;. LONDON, July 12. Eight sixty-six-seater monoplanes have fieen ordered by Imperial Airways, the first hatch of a new fleet, from Armstrong Whitworth’s, says the “Daily Mail’s” aeronautical correspondent.

The liners will develop 3600 horsepower from four engines, and will travel nearly 200 miles per hour. They will carry fifty passengers on the Australian and African routes, and will permit longer range.

The accommodation comprises a lounge, kitchen, bar, baggage room, and smoke-room, smoking being Remitted for the first time by Imperial Airways.

U.S. BALLOON COLLAPSES

NEW YORK. July 12. A .message from Rapid City, South Dakota, states that a, stratosphere balloon, belonging to the National Geographic Society and the United States Army Air Corps, collapsed through an unexplained cause, an hour before it was scheduled to take off at 4 a.m. No one was injured.

The top burst open without warning, and 375,000 cubic feet of helium escaped. The balloon was said to be the largest in the world.

WOMAN ESTABLISHES RECORD

BURBANK (California), July 11

Lama Ingalls landed at Burbank tonight, eighteen hours and twenty minutes after she left New York, thus establishing a women’s non-stop oast to west trans-continental record. This is the first non-stop trans-continental Bight made by a woman in America.