AVIATION HALT

Northern Advocate, 19 September 1927, Page 5

AVIATION HALT

? ATLANTIC NO PLAYGROUND || ; Mclntosh failure. LEVINE ALSO CHECKED. (United Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, September 18. The failure of Captain Mclntosh will probably end Atlantic ventures for the present season, because henceforth the Atlantic will be no playground. •The ’plane was forced down, and 50 feet from the water the visibility was only a few yards. Captain McIntosh turned back at five o’clock in the evening, emptying the petrol tanks en route. Mr Charles ,Levine and Captain Hincheliffe twice tried to take off from Cranwell for India, but the Miss Columbia, loaded with petrol, sank into the ground, which was sodden with heavy rains, and had to be rei wheeled in the hangar.—A. and N.Z. FORCED LANDING. RESUMPTION FOE CAPETOWN. (Received 11 a.m.) KHARTOUM, September 18. Lieutenant Bentley, who left London for Capetown on September 1 in a Moth aeroplane, departed today after being forced to land on the 15th.owing to engine trouble.—A. and N.Z. PASSENGER PLANE CRASHES. EIGHT KILLED OUTRIGHT. (Received 11.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 17. At Newmarket, New Jersey, eight persons were killed and four others injured so seriously that they may die, when a large Fokker ’plane carrying 10 passengers besides the pilot and mechanic crashed in an orchard. The Commercial Company had instituted a new, short-trip service, charging one cent.* per pound per person for a 10 i minutes’ ride. Over* 100 persons applied for rides, aid the air mail pilot, unaccustomed to this type of ’plane, made live successful trips, but fell on the sixth. The dead include the pilot and mechanic.—A. and N.Z. AMERICA TO AUSTRALIA., HAWAIIAN FIELDS CHOSEN. (Received 11.30 a.m.) HONOLULU, September *B. * Lieut. Anderson, who has returned from Kauai Island, sadd that the Australian fliers would probably use the Barking Sands field, near Maua, or Kauai. He has arranged for improvements to the field, .which at present is not entirely suitable for a take-off. — A. and N.Z. LINDBERGH’S “WE.” ENORMOUS DEMAND. (Received Noon.) NEW YORK, September 18. No fewer than 190,000 copies have been sold to date of Colonel Lindbergh’s book “We,” being the narrative of his flight. After writing the volume he decided that it must be rewritten. He made a hurried trip from the Middle West for this purpose. His royalties are estimated at 95,000 dollars and may reach many times that figure before the actual sales end. * —A. and N.Z. ACROSS THE TASMAN. 'EREWEN HOPS OFF TOMORROW. A 1600-MILE JAUNT. (Special to “Northern Advocate.”) AUCKLAND, This Day. Flight-Lieut. K, M. Prewen, of Australia, will attempt to fly across the Tasman tomorrow from Kempsey, North West Coast, New South Wales and will call at Lord Howe Island, next 'Northfolk Island, them to Auckland, an approximate total distance of 1600 miles. The landing arrangements have,.been made by Auckland firms.