NAVIGATION OF THE AIR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19625, 2 May 1927, Page 9

NAVIGATION OF THE AIR.

PEOMOTION OF SAFETY. PRIZE CONTEST ANNOUNCED. TESTS IN NEXT TWO YEARS. Br Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received April 30, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. NEW YORK. April 29. The committee of the Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics . anounces that it will award six prizes, one of £20,000 and five each of £2000,, for nn airplane contest designed purely to promote safety in aviation. Entries will be received until October 51, 1929 and tho tests will be conducted from time to tune in the intervening period. Machines which can be easily manoeuvred will be the chief criterion in awarding the prizes. Mi'. Daniel Guggenheim is. a member of, the extremely wealthy firm of Guggenheim Brothers, who have interests us many metal companies, and own smelting and refining works in America. Sir. Danie.i Guggenheim in 1926 gave £400,000 for the promotion of aviation, In ,1925 he gave £IOO.OOO to the University of New York for a School of Aeronautics. In 1925 his brother Sun on Guggenheim ar.d Mrs Simon Guggenheim gave £600.000. in memory of their son' John, to found scholarships for advanced study abroad for American students, which they called a " preliminary gilt." FLIGHTS OYER LONDON. FIRST PLEASURE TRIP. STORY OF THE AERIAL WAITER. (Received April 30. 5.5 P.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. Auril 30. "Whisky, uir," said an agile steward, spic and span in a white jacket and & white peaked cap, who stood on a blue pile carpeted corridor in a giant aeroplane balancing a salver on which were bottles, glasses and a syphon, while Ikh»don, 4000 ft. below, lay bathed in spring sunshine. The scene was on tho City of Glasgow, one of tho four new tripHe-engined Silver Wing air liners which was engaged on its first afternoon tea pleasure trip over London, under the auspices of Imperial Airways, Limited. Tho aeriiil waiter had thoroughly mastered his air legs, and walked briskly up and down the gangway, ministering to tho needs of the passengers. It was a striking commentary on tho vast strides civil flying has made. FEAT IN A GLIDER. MOUNTAIN TOP TO MEADOW. GERMAN ACE DESCENDS 9000 FT. (Received April 30, 5.25 v.ili.) A. and N.Z. BERLIN, April 30. A German ace named Udet carried oat a thriving flight in a glider. Ho flew from tho peak of Zug Spiltc, 9Gooi't. high, and after a flight of 25 minutes alighted in a meadow without mishap.