AVIATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 August 1931, Page 5

AVIATION

MOLLISON’S FLIGHT TO. ENGLAND (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) (Received sth August, 9.5 a.m) . ' BASRA, 4th August. Mollison arrived extremely tired, and took off at midnight after a few hours’ sleep. (Received sth August, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, 4th August. Mollison arrived at Aleppo . at 2 o’clock in the afternoon after a night and morning’s flight across the desert. LINDBERGH’S JOURNEY OTTAWA, 4th August. Lindbergh arrived at Baker Lake at 4 p.m. on Monday. MISS JOHNSON’S PROGRESS (Received sth August, 9.30 a.m ) LONDON, 4th August.

A message from Manchuli states that Miss Amy Johnson flew over the RussoChinese frontier, making for Harbin.

PLANES CRASH

(Received sth August, 9.30 a.m.) ROTTERDAM, 4th August. _ A military ’plane crashed and its pilot and a sergeant were killed. AMSTERDAM, 4th August. A Dutch air liner crashed into a signal pole and was destroyed, seriously injuring a boy playing on a field, and five women passengers.

BOMBER CATCHES FIRE

(Received sth August, 9.30 a.m.)

PRAGUE, 4th August.

Flying at a height of 6000 feet a heavy bombing ’plane caught fire. The pilot parachuted safely but tlie observer was over-excited and opened his parachute too early and was killed. The machine fell on the roof of a distillery, which, with an adjoining shop, caught fire. PARACHUTE RECORD CLAIMED (Received sth August, 9.30 a.m.) RIGA, 4th'-August Lieut. Peterson claims a European record parachute descent of 20,400 feet in fifteen minutes, in which he drifted five miles,