ATLANTIC FLIERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19929, 24 April 1928, Page 11

ATLANTIC FLIERS.

RELIEF PLANES DESPATCHED. BENNETT'S SERIOUS ILLNESS. Australian and N.Z. Press Association NEW YORK, April 22. A message from Murray Bay, Quebec, says the Ford piano piloted by Lieutenant Balchen left there to-day en route to Greenly Island to aid in the repairs of the Bremen, in which Hcrr Koehl, Baron von ITuehnefeld, and Major J. C. Fitzmaurice recently flew across tho Atlantic from Ireland. It reached Seven Islands and is expected to continue (lie flight to-morrow.

Mr. Clarence Chamberlin and three companions hopped off from Hartford, Connecticut!,, to-day for Greenly, via Murray Bay. Commander Richard Byrd has also left Boston for Quebec.

The German airmen say 20 hours will be necessary to repair tho Bremen aftj?r tho Ford plane arrives. It, flew 2155 miles across the Atlantic in 34 hours 22 minutes. Natives in the neighbouring districts say the Bremen must fly quickly before the thaws honeycomb the, ice, but the weather now continues to be unseasonably cold.

Lieutenant Bennett was taken to Quebec city in a plane from the St. Agnes field and placed in hospital. He is now suffering from pneumonia and has telegraphed to his wife to go to him. WIVES OF AVIATORS. DEPARTURE FROM ENGLAND. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. LONDON. April 22. Mrs. and Miss Fitzmaurice, wife and daughter of Major Fitzmaurice, joined the German liner Dresden at Queenstown for New York to-day. Frau Koehl, wife of the Bremen's pilot, was also a passenger by the same vessel.