AVIATION ASPECTS

Northern Advocate, 18 August 1933, Page 7

AVIATION ASPECTS

LITHUANICA CRASH. COMMISSION'S OPINION. FATIGUE AND BAD WEATHER. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, August .17. A message from Kovno, Lithuania, states that a Government commission has decided that the crash of Messrs Darius and Girenas on July 17, after they had flown from New York, was due to fatigue and bad weather. ; The Government has prohibited the newspapers publishing rumours to the effect that Nazis were responsible for the tragedy.

PRINCE FLIES TO FRANCE. PILOT FORCED DOWN. . ON RETURN JOURNEY. (British Official Wireless,.) (Received 0 a.m.) RUGBY, August Ifi. • The Prince of Wales flew r to Lo. Bourget from Rnnningdale last night, in a now' Vickers Viastra twoengined aeroplane, on his w’ay to spend a short holiday in Biarritz. Travelling incognito by night train from. Paris, the Prince reached Bayonne this morning and left there by motor car for Biarritz. While Flight-Lieutenant Fielclen w T as flying the Prince’s machine back to Croydon ho .was obliged by bad w’eathcr to make a forced landing, and the aeroplane w r ns slightly damaged.

FASTEST PASSENGER PLANE. '., BRITAIN ’S LATEST. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 37. Armstrong Whitworths are building Britain’s fastest large passenger aeroplane. . As the result of the successful survey flight to: Australia by the Imperial Airways plane Astraea, the new machine will be an improved version of the Atlanta type, which carries '2O passengers and a full load of freight and mail. The maximum speed exceeds 100 miles an hour with a load of 23j0001bs.