AVIATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 27 July 1927, Page 7

AVIATION

PROGRESS IN AUSTRALIA

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) 'Australian & NZ. Cable Association)

SYDNEY. 26th July

Addressing the .Millions Club, Captain Hughes, president of the Australian Aero Club, said there were mow three private air services operating in Australia whose machines made 11,66 b flights; a distance of 1,5b1,503 miles was covered : and 10.467 passengers had been carried, with only two fatal accidents.

.1.8.600 M ILES Oh' ELYINC

LONDON, 25th .lulv

Aviator Rlack landed at Orovdon from his 18,000 mile (light to India", a record distance with a passenger. lie also made record time, going limn Europe to India in nine days as against Sir Samuel Huare's previous record ol eleven. This is regarded as a striking iMust i'ntiriit of tin; commercial value of long distance air Iransporl, lilnek Hew thirteen days out of the sixteen which the journey occupied. AMERICAN POLICY (Received 27ih .lulv. 10.55 a.m.] NEW YORK. 26th July. ['resident Coolidge intends to pursue 'a policy nl' encouraging every city and town iii the United States t'o establish its own airport. The President issued orders to the Commerce Department and Aviation Hoard to assist in proniol HIS ill possible way the. ereytioli nl' suitable commercial, landing Melds, lie holds the view that the Federal (iovcrtnuent cannot appropriate funds for such fields bin will leave the establishment in localities, while the Federal (Joverinneiil, devoU* itself to general promotion of avmtvon.

A .MIRACULOUS ESOAPI

WASHINOTOK 25th .lulv. Lieutenant (.'hampion ascended 48.000 feet in a Wright-Apache .biplane, eslablishing an uiiollicial ah.il ltd/ record. after which he had descended to 36.000 feel, when seven of the nine cylinders blew out, their heads ripping holes in the wind's and knocking the oxyfjen tube from ( hampion'si mouth. The piston's rods, (lying backwards, shattered the wings, endangering bin life. Champion volplaned and landed safely in a two-acre patch. Experts declared the safe, descent was miraculous. The plane was completely frosted over.