FLIGHT ROUND WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18077, 29 April 1922, Page 9

FLIGHT ROUND WORLD.

i * TWO ATTEMPTS PROJECTED. ! EAST AND WEST ROUTES. | A. and V.Z. LONDON, April 37. j Tlie Pall Mall Gazette states that noti withstanding the recent aircraft accident. ir which Sir Ross Smith and Lieutenant I J. M. Bennett lost their lives, plans are \ weli advanced for another air flight round ; the world, the pilot being a former R. A.F. I officer now employed in the Air Ministry i A specially-designed flying boat of huge j dimensions is to be built. Tho route pro--1 posed is westwards, starting at Lisbon, i; thence via the Azores, across North 11 America to Honolulu, Manila, Calcutta, ■ | and Cairo. { Another statement is to the effect that i Major W. T. Blake, aeronautical corresi' pondent to the Daily News, and Captain ■ Norman McMillan will undertake a flight i round title world. Both dew to Morocco j u, 1921. Major Blake, interviewed by the Star. 1 ! said he expected to start at the end of May, and awaited the Air Ministry's pex- ■ mission to borrow one of its special amphibian machines. Tho Vicke-rj and Napier Companies and Shell and Wake- ' held Oil Companies, who backed Sir Ross cunith, are supporting the project. The proposed route was via France, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, Burma, China, Japan, Aleutian Islands, Aiafka, United States, Newfoundland, Greenland. Iceland, to Scotland, the total .iist-ancu bem? 30,000 miles, the longest : sea passage being 800 miles. The flight is expected to be completed in two months.