ATLANTIC FLOWN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21546, 18 July 1933, Page 9

ATLANTIC FLOWN

POST'S SUCCESS NEW YORK TO GERMANY BAT) WEATHER MET BRIEF HALT AT BERLIN CONTINUATION OF FLIGHT By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received July 17, 8.20 p.m.) BERLIN, July 17 Tlio American airmail, Mr. Wiley Post, who left New York on Saturday on a solo llight round tho world, made a perfect lauding at Berlin after a flight lasting 25 £ hours. The Berlin aerodrome officials were amazed when Mr. Post, who seemed exhausted, announced that ho wished to continue his journey Immediately; He refused to sleep while tho machine was being rofuellcd. Ho revealed that he had met very unfavourable weather and that ho encountered both rain and snow storms. There was thick mist off Ireland. Once he was badly scared over the Atlantic when, at a height of 12,000 ft., ho saw ice forming on the mucliine, the controls of which might have frozen. So, just in time, ho descended to a lower altitude, where the warmer air thawed tho ice. After the machine had been refuelled at Berlin, Mr. Post departed for Novosibirsk yesterday afternoon. Owing to a thunderstorm, however, lie lost his way between Berlin and Konigsberg, East Prussia, and was forced down owing to a leaky oil pipe. Hockets guided liim to tho airport at Konigsberg. The airman resumed his flight from Konigsberg at 6.45 a.m. to-day.

ITALIAN SQUADRON BRITISH TRIBUTE TO FEAT SUPERIORITY OF MACHINES (Received July 17, 6.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 17 A message from Chicago states that sirens throughout the city announced tho arrival at Chicago of tho Italian squadron of 24 seaplanes under General Balbo, Minister of Air. Tho wildly excited waiting crowds paraded tho streets, cheering and singing patriotic songs. The aviation correspondent of tho Daily Telegraph says that no other Air Force in the world could equal the Italian flight which has just concluded at Chicago, or assemble such a homogeneous force of large flying boats. Each, fully loaded, weighs 11 tons and could carry an immense war or commercial load on a 500 miles flight and return without refuelling. Unlike the machines attempting the Atlantic and other long-distance flights, they are not staggered at the take-off, nor are they unable to climb over even a small hill during the first few hours, for they flew at a height of 13,000 ft. through an Alpine pass.

LITHUANIANS' VENTURE NO NEWS RECEIVED OVERDUE AT DESTINATION (Received July 1?, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 16 The Lithuanian airmen, Messrs. Stephen Darius and Stanley Gircnas, who left New York yesterday morning on a flight to Lithuania, had not been reported to-night, by which time they were overdue at their destination.