ARRIVAL ON CAMELS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 254, 24 September 1935, Page 7

ARRIVAL ON CAMELS

AIRMEN LAND IN SUDAN. PARACHUTE FROM ’PLANE. CAMPBELL BLACK’S MISFORTUNE (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received September 24, 9.10 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 23.

A Khartoum message says that two strangers riding cameis into Kabushia, 130 miles north of here, proved to be Mr T. Campbell Black and Mr McArthur, who were on a flight to the Cape. Their machine got out of control west of the railway yesterday morning and they parachuted, landing ou the west bank of the Nile unhurt.

The machine caught fire and was destroyed.

Mr Black’s wife dramatically heard the news in a West End cinema, a special slide being bashed on the screen. An earlier message from Capetown said there had been no news of Mr Campbell Black since lie crossed from Egypt to the Sudan. Imperial Airways wireless stations had failed to find a trace, and it was feared the ’plane had been forced down m dangerous flying country.

The absence of reports from Mr Campbell Black since he passed over Wadi Haifa on his way to the Cape in an attempt at a record flight had been causing anxiety as his petrol supply would have lasted for only 11 flours after that.

Mr Campbell Black left Hatfield aerodrome on Saturday afternoon in a Comet ’plane. He hoped to make the flight in three stages—from Hatfield to Cairo, a distance of 2210 miles; from Cairo to Kisumu and thence to Capetown. Ho arrived at Cairo at 3.20 yesterday morning, and left at 4.28 a.m. He passed over Wadi Haifa at 8.25 a.m.

Mr Black was co-pilot to Mr C. W. A. Scott in the winning Comet in the Melbourne centenary air race. On August 8 last lie attempted the Lon-don-Capc flight in the machine he was now using, but abandoned the flight at Cairo owing to engine trouble.

AWARD TO MR C. W. A. SCOTT

WORLD RACE PROPOSED.

Received September 24, 10.10 a.m. BELGRADE, Sept. 23. The Congress of the International Aeronautical Federation has awarded Mr C. W. A. Scott its Grand Medal for his Australian flight as the best performance of the year. The Congress proposes to arrange a round-the-world air race. EMPIRE AIR ROUTES. FLYING-BOAT FLEET. Received September 24/9.30 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 23. Imperial Airways are ordering a fleet of new flying-boats, each of 17J tonSj with 1500 miles range, and a speed of nearly 200 miles an hour, for the main Empire routes. DUKE OF KENT’S PLANE. RACING SUCCESS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 22. The Duke of Kent’s Percival Mew Gull aeroplane, which set up a record speed in the King’s Cup air race a few weeks ago, yesterday won the air race from Hatfield to Cardiff at an average speed of 220 miles an hour. Captain E. W. Percival was again pilot. AIR MAIL LATE. SYDNEY, Sept. 23. The Postal Department advises that the incoming Imperial air mail is running 24 hours late. It will not arrive at Darwin until next Saturday.