ROUND THE WORLD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18541, 29 April 1922, Page 9

ROUND THE WORLD

ANOTHER FLIGHT ARRANGED. PLANS W-ELL ADVANCED. Press Association—By Telegraphy-Copyright. LONDON, April 27. The Pall Mall Gazette states that, notwithstanding Sir Ross Smith’s death, plans are well advanced for another air flight round the world. The pilot will be a former R.A.F. officer, who is now employed by the Air Ministry. A speciallydesigned flying-boat df huge dimensions is to be built. The route proposed is westwards, starting from Lisbon, thence to the Azores, across North America, then to Honolulu, Manila, Calcutta, and Cairo. The officer who is undertaking the round-the-world flight is Major W. T. Blake (the Daily News’s aeronautical correspondent). He will be accompanied-by Captain Norman MacMillan. Both flew to Morocco in 1921. Major Blake, interviewed by the Star, said that he expected to start at the end of May. He was awaiting the Air Ministry’s permission to borrow one of its special amphibian machines. The Vickers-Napier Companies and the Shell and. Wakefield Oil Companies, who backed Sir Ross Smith, are supporting the projects The proposed route is via France, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, Bnrmah, China, Japan, the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States, Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland, and Scotland, the total distance being 30,000 miles. The flight is expected to be completed in two months.— A. and N.Z. Cable.