Mollisen Reaches Aleppo

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6621, 6 August 1931, Page 7

Mollisen Reaches Aleppo

OVER DESERT BY NIGHT LONG HOP FROM BASRA LONDON, Aug. 4. A message from Basra states that the Australian airman Mollison arrived extremely tired and took off at midnight after a few hours’ sleep for Aleppo en route for Brindisi and Britain in an effort to beat Anderson Scott’s Australia-England record. A later message states that Mollison arrived at Aleppo at two in the afternoon, after a night and morning’s flight across the desert. The Final Hop

GREAT INTEREST IN ENGLAND British Official Wireless. Received Wednesday, 9.50 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 4. Considerable interest is aroused by the attempt to break O. A.. Scott’s record of ten days 23 hours for the Aus-tralia-England flight, upon which the Australian pilot, J. A. Mollison, is engaged. He left Wyndham on July 29, flying a de Haviland Moth with a Mark II Gipsy engine. Tho reports of his progress encourage the hopes expressed in to-night’s papers that ho will succeed in keeping to his schcdulo and will complete the flight to-morrow in the final hop from Athens to Croydon, thus beating the previous record by a day aud a half.

The Lindbergh Tour OTTAWA, Aug. 4. The Lindbcrgs arrived at Baker Lake, Northern Canada (lat. 59 north), at 4 p.m. on Monday. The news was learned on Tuesday after a wall of static cut them off during tho night. Received Wednesday, 9 p.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 4. Lindberg hopped off from Baker Lake for Alclavik on Tuesday at 6.35 p.m. E.S.T. Record Parachute Descent RIGA. Au,g. 4. Lieutenant Peterson claims a European record for a parachute descent from 20,400 feet in fifteen minutes, in which he drifted five miles. Two Crashes in Holland ROTTERDAM, Aug. 4 A military plane crashed and the pilot sergeant was killed. A Dutch airliner crashed into a signal pole and was destroyed, seriously injuring a hoy playing in a field and five women passengers. Bombing Plane’s Destructive Fall PRAGUE, Aug. 4, Plying at 6000 feet a hea-y b axhing plane caught fire. The pilot parachuted safely to the earth. The observer, becoming over-excited, opened his parachute too early and was killed. The machine fell on the roof of distillery, which with the adjoining shop caught fire. Schneider Cup Machine Lost ROME, Aug. 4. It is now revealed that Captain Monti, who was killed by his plane crashing into Lake Garda, was flying one of two new Fiat machines capable of four hundred miles an hour and specially constructed for the Schneider Cup. Salvage efforts have proved fruitless. Tho machine is lying at a depth of 300 feet. Amy Johnson Reaches China LONDON. Aug. 4. A message from Manculi states Amy Johnson flew over the Russo-Chinese frontier and is making for Harbin. WEAN ’ GRADUALLY.

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