AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1939, Page 5

AVIATION

BRITISH LINERS NEAR COMPLETION.

(Per British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, April 27.

There are six large air liners in construction at Short Bros, factory. They include three land ’planes designed for the North Atlantic, which have a cruising speed of between 240 and 250 miles per hour and a range of over 3000 miles. Two are intended for flying at normal heights, but the third which is a 31-ton four-engined machine, is designed for greater heights, and is expected to do more than 330 miles an hour at a height of. about 25,000 feet, , The launching of three seaplane airliners of a similar tonnage, which' are building in [lochester, will precede that of the land ’planes. The first of them, the “Grenadier,” is scheduled to begin flying tests next month.

MOSCOW-NEW YORK FLIGHT STARTED. MOSCOW, April 28. A Greek-born Soviet pilot, Vladimiar Kokkinski, and a navigator, Michael Jordienko, started at 2.19 a.m. British Standard Time, on a non-stop flight for New York, via Iceland and Greenland, aiming to arrive in New York in time for the opening of the World’s Fair on Sunday. SEARCH FOR MISSING AIRMAN. SYDNEY, April 28. Two Air Force bombing ’planes left Sydney at dawn to-day to take part in an aerial search for the overdue airman, Edwards, of Darwin, who, as cabled last night, was lost when flying to the aid of a man at a distant point.