His Last Long Flight

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 224, 23 September 1935, Page 6

His Last Long Flight

“SMITHY” ORGANISING ANOTHER COMPANY

United Press Assoclaiion.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.

Received Sunday 7.50 p.m. NEW YORK, Kept

Sir Charles liingsford Smith sailed aboard tho Britannic for England lo attempt the “last long Right I hope to do.” His plane was shipper 1 on a cargo vessel. He plans to fly from London to Melbourne via Athens, Baghdad and Singapore. He stated that lie is organising a company to fly this route commercially.

Lieutenant Felix Waitkus, of Kohler, Wisconsin, took off from the Floyd Bennett air Held at 5.45 a.m. on a solo non-stop flight to Kaunas, Lithuania, via Newfoundland, Ireland, England, Denmark and the Baltic Sea. He intended to fly in the sub-stratosphere and expected the flight would take 28 to 30 hours.

Campbell Black’s “Boomerang Flight

Received .Sunday, 9.30 p.m. LONDON, Wept. 21

Campbell Black with his co-pilot McArthur, flying a Comet, departed from Hatfield for a “boomerang’ ; flight to Capetown which ho hoped to reach within 48 hours in three hops. The first stop will be Cairo.

Flying-beat Missing in Teri'iffic Monsoon

LONDON, Wept. fit). The Times’ Rangoon correspondent slates that only two of the deHavilland flying-boats which left .Plymouth on September 1) have arrived. The third machine was last seen near Basscin, India. A terrific monsoon has been raging all day, and a search failed to reveal anv truce of the machine.

Landed Safely on Beach Received Wuu«lny, D.fnJ p.m. RANGOON, Sept. fij. The do Havilland flying-boat landed safely on the beach south of Basseia. A plane is departing from Rangoon to pick up the crew.