ALONG THE AIRWAYS

Northern Advocate, 2 May 1933, Page 5

ALONG THE AIRWAYS

SIR A. COBHAM’S EMPRISE NON-STOP TO AUSTRALIA. REFUELLING ALOFT. SATISFACTORY TRIAL. (British Official Wireless.! (Received 9 a.m.) RUGBY, April 20. Sir Alan Cobham expressed complete satisfaction after his first trial flight at Portsmouth in • the. monoplane (that is being equipped for. his. nonstop refuelling flight to Australia. 'The machine is a low wing monoplane of the type built for. passenger and air mail service work. Normally it carries fuel for six houis cruising at a speed of I+2 miles per hour. Space for only two instead of six passengers is provided in the machine, which is furnished with five tanks in the wings. Thd total fuel capacty is 288 gallons, enough for about 2d hours’ flying before refuelling. On the trip to Australia the monoplane will be refuelled while in flight from four or five aircraft that will meet it at fixed points. A feature, of the machine is its retractable undercarriage, which, according io FlightLieut. Stainforth, who made -he first, tests of the machine, will add 40 miles per hour to its speed by reducing the air resistance. The machine is fitted with an Arm-strong-,Siddeley Lynx 4c, engine, which develops a maximum of -42 h.p.

HENDON DISASTER. PLANE CRASHES IN FLAMES. VISCOUNT KNEE WORTH KILLED: (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 1. While a squadron of nine planes Avas flying in formation at Hendon in preparation for an air pageant, a machine piloted by Viscount Knebworth, crashed.

Viscount KncbAvorth ami the other occupant of the machine, Aircraftsman Harrisoh, Avere killed. Eye-Avitnesses say that the pianos Avere dipping in a final salute in the twilight, AA r hen Viscount KnebAVorth’s plane suddenly dropped to the earth and immediately caught fire.

Edward Anthony .Tames Lytton, Viscount Knelnvorth, Avas the son and heir of the second Enid of Lytton, Ho was 20 years of ago, und aviis educated at Eton. The Earl of Lytton Avas formerly a Civil Lord of the Admiralty, and Acting Governor-General of India, and Avas leader of the international delegation Avhicdi AA’as sent by the League of Nations last year to investigate the Sin o-Japanese trouble.