NON-STOP FLIGHT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21564, 8 August 1933, Page 7

NON-STOP FLIGHT

FRENCHMEN'S PROGRESS PROSPECT OF RECORD AMERICA TO AUSTRIA INDIA THEIR OBJECTIVE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received August 7, 10.15 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 7 The French airmen, MM. Paul Codos and Maurice Rossi, who left Brooklyn, America, early yesterday morning in the aeroplane Joseph Lebrix on an attempt to create a new record for a non-stop flight, are making remarkable progress. They were 200 miles west of Land's End at 3.30 p.m. yesterday and at 8.22 p.m. passed over Le Bourgct, France. The fliers sent out a wireless message at that stage saying: "We still have petrol enough to break the record and are continuing to India." Then came a message from Vienna stating that between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. to-day the airmen crossed Austria and were flying in the direction of Budapest, Hungary. The world's non-stop distance flight record which the two French airmen set out to beat was created by two Englishmen, Squadron-Leader 0. R. Gayford and Flight-Lieutenant Nicholette, in February, 1933. They flew from England to Walvis Bay, South West Africa, a distance of 5340 miles, beating the previous record by 328 miles. They were in the air 57 hours 95 minutes. M. Paul Codos was associated with the famous Captain Costes in making six world's records —one for distance in a'closetl circuit (more than 5000 miles) and the others various performances with stipulated loads. On Janury 4, 1932, M. Codos left Paris for Hanoi, Indo-China, with M. Henri Robida. They reached their destination "by easy stages," as they said, that is, in a series of daylight flights which took seven days, nine hours. Then after a short rest they set out to beat the record. Flying by way of Calcutta, Karachi, Basra, -r ' "sns, Rome and Marseilles, they arrived at Lo Bourget, France, on January 24, having covered the 6844 miles in three days, five hours, 40 minutes. The previous record for this flight, set up by Captain Costes and Lieutenant Bellonte, was four days, 12 hours. M. Codos said they could have completed the journey in even shorter time but for the very bad weather they had experienced. The distance flown by MM. Codos and Rossi from New York to Austria would be about 5000 miles, so that they appear to be likely to break the record.