PILOTLESS AEROPLANE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19806, 29 November 1927, Page 11

PILOTLESS AEROPLANE.

CONTROL BY WIRELESS. ELEVEN FLIGHTS TO FRANCE. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Nov. 27. The News of the World says an aeroplane, without a pilot, has made 11 successful flights from England to France under wireless control. PRELIMINARY TEST. KINGSFORD SMITH'S PLANS. ADJUSTMENTS TO AEROPLANE. A and N.Z. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 27. The endurance flight- of the aeroplane Southern Cross has been postponed until to-morrow. Captain Kingsford Smith said the reason for the postponement was the need for a variation of 1000 th of an inch in an adjustment of the motors. He gave December 6 as the possible date of his departure for Australia, and announced that the Southern Cross had been re- j christened the Spirit of California. LANCASTER DELAYED. TROUBLE WITH MAGNETO. (Received November 28, !1."" i .-nJ A. and N.Z.-Sub. BASRA, row T. Captain W. N. Lancaster, who is f'y. i ing to Australia with Mrs. Keith M ' . as a passenger, was forced to descend ct Bushire owing to trouble with one of t!;-.; magnetos of his aeroplane. The Hoy;! Air Force authorities are sending a substitute magneto by air. SIR ALAN COBHAM. DELAY OCCURS AT MALTA. A. and N.Z. MALTA, Noy. 27. Sir Alan Cobham, who is flying to Africa, will be delayed for a few days at Malta in order to repair slight damage which has occurred to a wing float of his machiue. JOURNEY TO AFKICA. AIRMAN REACHES MALTA. A. and N.Z.-Sun. MALTA. Nov. 27. Mr. John Carbery (the name assumed by Lord Carbery) has reached Malta on his flight to Africa.