TWO PLANES TRYING TO KEEP ALOFT FOR INDEFINITE PERIOD

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6803, 5 January 1929, Page 9

TWO PLANES TRYING TO KEEP ALOFT FOR INDEFINITE PERIOD

Refuelling in the Air

“NURSE” PLANE FEEDS PETROL THROUGH HOSE U.S. ENDURANCE EFFORTS. United Press Association —By Eleetrle Telegraph —Copyright. VANCOUVER, Jan. 3. Two aeroplanes are aloft, trying to break endurance records, but both are making use of trick devices for rcfuolling in tho air. At Marshall, Missouri, the small 'monoplane NB 3 is soaring over Snowfields with Leonard Rhiner and Blaine Tuxhorn as pilots. Whenever they run short of gasolene, they dip to the ground and, with a fork-line chain, snatch containers of fuel from the ground. Several “pick-ups" have been perfectly accomplished. The pilots hope to continue for a week or more. At Rockwell Field, San Diego, seven army aviators are apparently -working successfully with a flying-filling station. They are using a tri-motored Foklcer, and” already havo been aloft 36 hours. Every few hours they make contact with a “nurse" 'plane above getting 100 gallons of gasolcno each time through a hose. Hot food, newspapers and messages are dropped aboard by lines. The aviators hope to break every endurance record put up by 'plane or dirigible. Lady Bailey’s Flight Over Wildest Africa CAPETOWN TO LONDON REMARKABLE FEAT BY LONE WOMAN. LONDON, Jan. 3. The most remarkable flight made by a woman in any country will end when Lady Bailey reaches Stag Lane from Capetown in a Moth Cirrus machine. Lady Bailey left Capetown on May 12 and soon after was forced to land, when the undercarriage of the 'plane was damaged. The Sudan authorities refused permission to a lone woman to traverse East Africa and tho Nile, but the Belgian authorities gavo her permission to traverso tho Congo. For ten days there -was no news of her, and considerable. anxiety was felt, as she was flying over country unknown aviationally, and regarded as dangerous. On November 28, Lady Bailey reached French West Africa and permission to fly across the Sahare was refused, owing to the disturbed nature of the country. Finally, by permission of the Spanish authorities, sho reached Casablanca.