GREAT AIR RACE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21912, 22 September 1934, Page 11

GREAT AIR RACE

KINGSFORD SMITH A SERIOUS DILEMMA NO AMERICAN CERTIFICATE RISK OF COMPLICATIONS By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright MELBOURNE, Sept. 21 As no certificate of airworthiness has arrived from America for Sir Charles Kingsforcl Smith's racing monoplane Lady Southern Cross, the airman has received a hint from the Civil Aviation Department that delicate international complications may arise if he persists in leaving Australia for England next Tuesday, in order to compete in the Centenary air race, as ho intends doing, prior to the arrival of the certificate.

It has been made clear to Sir Charles that he will be liable to restraint and his machine to detention by any country which is a signatory to the International Convention of Air Navigation over which he may fly. The airman has sent a cablegram to the President of Turkey. Mustapha Kemal Pasha seeking permission to fly over that country, and apologising for any previous transgression. TURKISH REGULATIONS BAN ON TRANSGRESSORS THE OFFICIAL ATTITUDE Times Cable LONDON, Sept. 20 The Constantinople correspondent of the Times reports that subject to compliance with certain conditions permission to fly over Turkey will no doubt be freely granted to air race competitors, except to airmen who have transgressed Turkish regulations. Presumably Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Mr. J. A. »Mollison will give Turkey a wide berth as they have been forbidden to fly over the country after former landings and non-compliance with regulations.