FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 13902, 1 November 1919, Page 3

FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

i ANOTHER ASPIRANT. .] [By Electric telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) (Aus. and N,Z. Cable Asso.) Received November 1, at 1.30 a.m. ~ LONDON, October 31. e The next competitor in the Anstra- ,{ lian flight will be the Alliance machine. r flie pilot proposes to start in a few i days. The engine is 450 h.p. Napierj Lion, with a range of three thousand miles and a. cruising speed of one hun- + dred miles per hour. The petrol capacity is 515 gallons. A sister ship re- * cently flew to Madrid—a nine-hundred "1 miles non-stop run —in 7Jhours. Tho I airplane is equipped with the most ! powerful wireless, on which the pilot, .Lieutenant Roger Douglas, intends to R rely for navigation, especially over the °~ difficult East Indian stage. ' The Dutch Government has promised all assistance, including tho services of II the Bandoeng wireless station, which is s one of the most powerful in the world. * , The commanding officer of the • Co- " . iogne force telegraphs that Captain " Matthews has not left Cologne. His next destination is unsettled.