SUPREME AIR FORCE

Northern Advocate, 18 July 1933, Page 5

SUPREME AIR FORCE

ITALIAN SQUADRON CAPACITY FOR BIG LOADS. LONG I) ISTA NC E ABILITY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 0 a.m.) LONDON, July 17. The aviation correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that no other air force in the world could equal the Italian flight which has just concluded at Chicago, or resemble such a homogeneous force of large Hying boats. Each, fully loaded, weighs 11 tons and could carry an immense war or commercial load on ! a ;"00-milos flight and return without refuelling. Unlike the machines attempting the Atlantic and other long-distance flights, they are not staggered at the take-off, nor are they unable to climb over even a small hill during the first few hours, for they flew at a. height of 13,000 foot, through an Alpine pass, UNIQUE PERFORMANCE. TRANSMISSION OF PHOTOS. PUBLICATION IN LONDON. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, July 17. Claiming the achievement of an un« precedented journalistic feat, the newspapers today publish photographs of the landing of the squadron of Italian seaplanes at Montreal on Friday. The photographs were brought by air from Montreal to New York, then brought by Mr Wiley Post on his Atlantic flight to Berlin, and finally telegraphed to London.

POST RESUMES. DEPARTS FROM KONIGBBERG. (Received 9 a.m.) BERLIN, July 17. The airman resumed his flight from Konigsberg at (5.40 a.m. today. A later message says that Post arrived at Moscow and soon afterwards loft for Novosibirsk, a distance of 1579 miles.