WORLD FLIGHT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 October 1926, Page 5

WORLD FLIGHT

DE PIN EDO’S GREAT ACHIEVES-

MENT

(By ElectHa Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian & N Z. Gable Association)

LONDON. Oct. 9,

Plea for Hie remembrance of Do Pinodo’s remarkable flight is submitted in a letter to the “Daily Telegraph.” The writer asks English sportsmanship and sense of justice in the midst of singing Cobham's praises, not to overlook the Italian’s achievements. He points out that Cobham’s mute as far as Kupang was almost identical with that of De Pinedo. The Italian flew round Australia via Western Australia, thence to Japan, (lien to Rome, with the same engine and machine, t'obham covered considerably less distance, therefore his is not a record, though there is certainly just cause for British pride.

COBHA M ENTERTATNED

LONDON, Oct. 9

Coblmm was entertained at dinner by tin; Institution of Aeronautical Engineers. lie said the wing sections of I ln> machine in which lie Mew to Australia were designed in 1916, which proved there were some aeronautical tacts which were unaltered. “Aviation is a question of development,” lie said. “I do not think we shall ever have some new kind of machine lhaL will revolutionise Hying. People who are waiting for some pate Hit machine in which they can land in their back garden will wait in vain.”