FLIGHT TO ENGLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20088, 27 October 1928, Page 13

FLIGHT TO ENGLAND.

HURLEY'S RELIEF PILOT. AIR FORCE OFFICER CHOSEN. (Received October '2O. 10.15 p.m.) SYDNEY. Jjjft. 26. Flying-Officer Owen will be tlit**' relief pilot for Captain Frank Hurley and Fly-ing-Officer S. J. Moir in tho monoplane " Spirit of Australia," which will start for England on Sunday morning. Flying-Officer Owen, who is a member of the Australian Air Force, has just spent a holiday tuning-up the engines of the plane, with which he is thus well acquainted.

LIGHT PLANE RECORD. CROYDON TO BERLIN DIRECT. FLIGHT IN BRITISH MACHINE. British Wireless. RUGBY. Oct. 05. The Simmonds Cirrus Spartan aeroplane in which Flight-Lieutenant Webster recently won the race for the King's Cup created yesterday what is stated to be the world's record for a non-stop flight in a light aeroplane. With a passenger in the machine and with 50 gallons of petrol on board the pilot, H. Banting, left the Croydon aerodrome at 6.50 a.m., and reached Berlin after a direct flight at 12.45 p.m. Only a little more than half tho fuel was used in the (light.

FLIGHT OVER AMEEICA. NEW YORK TO CALIFORNIA. PRIVATE PLANE SETS RECORD. Australian Press Association—United Service LOS ANGELES. Oct. 25. The monoplane Yankee Doodle with Captain B. C. Collyer as pilot and Harry Tucker, the owner, completed a record transcontinental flight from Now York (his afternoon in 24 hours 55 minutes.