NEW ZEALAND FLIER

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 99, 24 March 1930, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND FLIER

CRASHES IN FRANCE. SIR PARKERSON’S ILL-LUCK ’PLANE EXTENSIVELY DAMAGED. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Times Cables.) Received March 24, 11.40 a.m. LONDON, March 23. The Times’s Paris correspondent states “Mr Parkerson, of Auckland, who left Lympne Aerodrome at six o’clock this morning for New Zealand, crashed in bad weather near Molun, 50 miles from Paris. “The machine overturned, but the flier was not seriously injured.. The ’plane was extensively damaged. The mishap occurred at 10.30 a.m.” SYDNEY TO ENGLAND. AIRMEN LEAVE~F()R WYNDHAM. Received March 24, 10.30 a.m. SYDNEY, March 24. Mr David Smith and Mr H. W. Shiers left Mascot Aerodrome at seven o’clock this morning for Cunnamulla—the first hop en route for Wyndham. The airmen, who are using a Ryan monoplane, expect to reach Wyndham on Thursday. They will then start the real flight for England. KAY-PIPER VENTURE. SYDNEY, March 23. Private advices state that FlyingOfficers Piper and Kay, the New Zealand airmen, arrived at Atamboea last night, and expect to reach Darwin tonight. FLIGHT BY INDIAN. DELHI, March 22. The Government of India has granted 7500 rupees to Mr Chawla as the first Indian to accomplish the flight from Karachi to England. The Gov-ernor-General personally cabled his congratulations. Mr Chawla, who is only 17 years of age, learned to fly in England. He did not qualify for the prize of £SOO offered by the Aga Khan for the first solo flight by an Indian between India and England, as he was accompanied by a mechanic, Mr Adsey. AIR SURVEY. UNDEVELOPED PARTS OF EMPIRE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 22. The new Gloster air survey biplane, the first aircraft to have been specially designed for such work over the undeveloped parts of the Empire, left Heston Air Park yesterday for Northern Rhodesia. The pilot was Mr Alan Butler, the chairman of the Aircraft Operating Company, and his wife acted as second pilot. The route they are taking provides for stops at Cologne, Vienna, Belgrade, Salonika and Cairo. Thence they will fly up the Nile for 2000 miles to Lake Victoria Nyanza, and skirting its east coast will proceed. to Bulawayo, via Tahora, Broken Hill and Livingstone. . Mr Butler proposes to continue the flight to Capetown, and the machine will then be flown back to Bulawayo, the African headquarters of the Aircraft Operating Company. Mr Butler will afterwards go to Brazil to inspect the company’s survey expedition at Rio de Janeiro.