AVIATION TRAIL

Northern Advocate, 15 December 1932, Page 6

AVIATION TRAIL

MRS MOLLISON’S EMPRISE PROSPECT OF NEW RECORD. CROYDON PREP A R ATIONS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, December 34. if Mrs Mollison maintains the speed indicated in her latest messages through Paris, sbe will probably beat her own outward record. Preparations are being made at Croydon for her reception. COMPELLED TO LAND. BAD WEATHER THE CAUSE. (Received .1.30 p.m.) ORAN (Algeria), December 14. Bad weather ' compelled Mrs J. A. Mollison, who is making an attempt on the flying mord from Cape Town to London, to land at 4 p.m. at Beni Ounif, 240 miles south of here. She plans to resume her flight as soon as the weather will permit. BERTRAM FAILURE. UNDERCARRIAGE WRECKED. ANOTHER ATTEMPT IN VIEW. (Received 9 a.m.) SO UR ABA YA, December 14. Captain Hans Bertram’s monoplane, which was badly damaged when the airman was attempting to take off on resuming his flight to Loudon, is to be dismantled here. Captain Bertram will return to Darwin to make a fresh attack on the record. The whole undercarriage was wrecked. The stowaway discovered at Bima is John Dodson, aged 20, who was born in Tasmania. He declared that lie had no special object in the flight except that he was anxious for a nice trip. Ho never thought he was endangering the lives of the pilots. The police are sending him back to Australia.