AUSTRALIAN AIRMAN

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 210, 6 August 1931, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN AIRMAN

MR MOLLISON’S FLIGHT. FINAL STAGES. CONSIDERABLE INTEREST IN ENGLAND. (United Press Association—By Electric , Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 6, 11.0 a.m. ROME, Aug. 5. Mr J. A. Mollison, the Australian airman, has arrived here and will leave at 11 o’clock to-night for London. Bad weather forced the airman to return to Aleppo. Ho started again after midnight and arrived at Athens in excellent spirits. He said that, barring mishaps, he was confident of knocking a day and a half off Mr Anderson Scott’s record. Mr Mollison had a very brief rest at Athens. A British Official Wireless message states:—

Considerable interest has been aroused by at the attempt to break Mr Anderson Scott’s record of 10 days 23 hours for the Australia-England flight, upon which Mr J. A. Mollison is engaged. He left Wyndham, Australia, on July 29, flying a Do Haviland Moth with a II Gipsy engine. Reports of his progress encourage the hope that he will succeed in keeping to his schedule and boat the previous record by a day and a half. MR CHICHESTER’S MOVEMENTS. Received August 6, 8.5 a.m. TOKIO, Aug. 5. Mr F. O. Chichester, the New Zealand airman, passed over Karenko, also Taihoku and landed at Tamsui, Northwestern Formosa, in the afternoon. Ho is leaving for Shanghai at seven o’clock to-morrow morning. AMERICAN AIRMEN’S PLANS Received August G, 10.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 5. A cable message has been received from Messrs Herndon and Pangborn, the American airmen, in Khabarovsk (Siberia) definitely announcing that an attempt will be made to fly non-stop from Tokio to Seattle. An extra tank will be put in the ’plane at Tokio. MISS AMY JOHNSON’S PROGRESS. Received August 6, 9.35 a.m. TOKIO, Aug. 5. Miss Amy Johnson, the British aviatrix, has arrived at Iveijo. LINDBERGHS FLIGHT. Received August 6, 9.45 a.m. VANCOUVER, Aug. 5. A message from Aklavik, in the North-West Territories, states that Colonel and Mrs Lindbergh landed there at G. 5 a.m. to-day, completing 1100 miles in eleven and a half hours. Every resident of the busy little Arctic hamlet cheered the fliers. They will probably remain overnight before pro-

ceeding to Port Barrow, Alaska.