SEAPLANE FLIGHT

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 239, 6 September 1928, Page 7

SEAPLANE FLIGHT

JAUNT CROSS COUNTRY. LONGEST EVER ATTEMPTED. TWO HOPS OF 3000 MILES. (United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received September 6, 10.20 a.m. OTTAWA, Sept. 5. Tho longest cross country seaplane flight ever attempted commenced today. Squadron-Leader A. E. Godfrey, of the Canadian Air Force, accompanied by Sergeant-Miajor Graham, mechanic, hopped off for Lake Cormorant, Manitoba, and thence to Vancouver. The seaplane carries tho first air mail to the Pacific Coast. The take-oir of the big Fairchild monoplane from Lake Deschene was thrilling,’ the pilot being unab»© «o make sufficient headway to lift tiro machine from the water. A launch rushed across the path of tho ’plane, leaving a swell which, rising high, eventually enabled the pilot to lift the machine. Tho flight will be made in two hops of three thousand miles each, the ’plane returning over a six thousand miles’ jaunt across Canada. SYDNEY TO LONDON. KEITH ANDERSON’S ATTEMPT. TO BEAT HINKLER’S RECORD. Received September 6. 10.30 a.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 6. Tho aviator, Lieutenant Keith Anderson, who is to attempt a . flight tomorrow from Sydney to London in ail effort to break Captain Bert Hinkler’s record, had considerable experience on active service and in England with the Royal Flying Corps. He will bo accompanied on the journey by Mr Hitch cox as engineer and general assistant.