ECHO OF DOLE FLIGHT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19765, 12 October 1927, Page 13

ECHO OF DOLE FLIGHT.

TWO MISSING AIRMEN.

THEORY AS TO WHEREABOUTS POSSIBILITY OF THEIR SAFETY. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received October 11, 5.40 p.m.) A. and N.Z. SUVA, Oct. 11. The High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Sir Eyre Hutson, has received a telegram from the British Consul at Honolulu saying the family of Mr. Jack Frost, the pilot of the aeroplane Golden Eagle, which took part in the CaliforniaHawaii flight in August for the Dole prize, believe the airman and his companion, Mr. Gordon Scott, may have overshot Hawaii and probably reached one of the British islands to the south-west of Honolulu.

The attention of fishermen and other navigators has been called to this theory in order that a search may be made. Many rewards are offered, the total of these being £3OOO. TRANSATLANTIC TRIPS. ATTITUDE OF BRITAIN. NO POWER TO INTERFERE. (Received October 11, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON, Oct. 10. The Secretary for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, defined the attitude of the Ministry of Air toward transatlantic flights. He says it has no power to prevent them, and would be reluctant to take such power, as it would be an unwarrantable interference with liberty. Should there be a premature institution of regular passenger flights it would be a different matter.

SIR ALAN COBHAJL JOURNEY TO RHODESIA. SURVEY FOR AIR SERVICES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received October 11, 6.38 p.m.) A. and N.Z. RUGBY. Oct. 10. The famous British airman, Sir Alan Cobham, who flew from Cairo to Capetown and back, will leave England shortly for Rhodesia. His object is to establish a systematic air service there. In an interview Sir Alan said ho hoped to do much survey work from the air. So far the routes across Rhodesia had been flown in a more or less haphazard fashion. He wanted to map them out properly and consider the question of aerodromes. This would be one step toward setting up a real Cape to Cairo air service. FRANCE TO BRAZIL. FLIGHT OVER ATLANTIC. START MADE FROM PARIS. (Received October 11, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. PARIS, Oct. 10. The airmen Costes and Lebrix took off to-day from the Le Bourget aerodrome on the first stage of their flight to Buenos Aires. They expect to make the first landing at St. Louis, Senegal, French West Africa, and then to fly by the sea route to Pernambuco, and so to Buenos Aires. The passage is roughly 200 miles longer than from Ireland to Newfoundland. Good weather is reported on the entire route. LANCASTER READY. OVERLAND TO AUSTRALIA. FLIGHT ABOUT TO START. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Oct. 10. Captain W. N. Lancaster is to leave for his flight to Australia at 10 a.m. on Wednesday. The High Commissioner for Australia, Sir Granville Ryrie, and Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker will bid him farewell. Lady Ryrie christened the machine Red Rose. Captain W. N. Lancaster, who it was reported would have as a passenger Mrs. Keith Miller, the wife of a Melbourne journalist, will leave from the Croydon Aerodrome, He proposes to fly via Marseilles. Italy, North Africa. Persia, India, Singapore, and go to Darwin. His machine is an Avro-Avian.

FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA. SOUTHERN CROSS STARTS. 'PLANE GOES TO OAKLAND A. and N.Z. SEATTLE, Oct. 10. The Fokker plane Southern Cross, in which Captain Kingsford Smith and his party intend to fly from California to Australia, took off to-day for Oakland, via Fort Lewis, where she will bo fuelled. The American airman, Philip Salyman, who was engaged to attend to tho reconditioning of the machine for tho flight, piloted the piano on this part of the trip. DUTCHMAN'S FINE FEAT. TO BATAVIA IN 10 DAYS. A. and N.Z. AMSTERDAM, o<;t. 10. The Dutch newspapers are giving prominence to the feat of Flying Officer Koppen, who, with a pilot and a mechanic, flew mails from Holland to Batavia in 10 days, nine of which were actual flying days. The papers think there is every possibility of reducing tho timo to a week by means of relays of machines, with the co-operation of Britain, whose interests would be also served for the greater part of the journey.