AVIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18545, 4 May 1922, Page 7

AVIATION

LONDON TO. PARIS. RECORD-SMASHING FEAT. , ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHT. ■ ■ . ■* Press Association —Bj ‘ T«,!«gr4ph—Copyright. LONDON, May 2. Major Blake, who has announced his intention of undertaking a round-the-world flight, broke seven world records yesterday. He flew from London to Paris' and back ; twice in one day, covering 1000 miles between 7 o'clock in the morning and 5.40 in the afternoon. Interviewed, Major Blake said that" his chief object was to show that civil aviation is commercially possible without subsidies by means of getting a higher daily mileage out of the machines! Daimler’s, he said, intended henceforth to run two cross-Channel services daily with’one machine and a fresh! pilot on each return journey. Major Blake added that he was considering the question of taking a third man with him round the world. He had invited Sir Keith Smith to go, but the latter, after the tragic shock of the Brooklands accident, felt that he would not be justified in accepting the offer, though he was keenly interested in the project. The Air Ministry has consented to lend an amphibian machine for the flight.—A. and N.Z. Cable.