WORLD FLIGHT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18766, 20 January 1923, Page 9

WORLD FLIGHT.

ANOTHER ATTEMPT THIS YEAR. SECRET AEROPLANE BUILDING. Prao. Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 18. The Legion of Frontiersmen is arranging: a world flight, to start in the spring, with Captains Macmillan, Geoffrey, and Malins as pilot, engineer, and observer respec-. lively. A second pilot will also be earned. The machine is of the amphibious type, and is being built in sections, so' that even the constructors will not know its secrets. Two months before the flight a special supply ship will visit the desolate parts of the rout© and will leave petrol and food dumps on uninhabited places, such as the Aleutian Islands. The dumps will be especially marked in order to be visible to the aviators at a high altitude. Captain Malins, interviewed, said: ‘ W« are receiving the Air Ministry’s wholehearted support. Our rout© will bo Erance, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Palestine, Persia, India, Burma, Japan, Siberia,, Alaska, Canada, Newfoundland, Green-, land, Iceland, Orkney Islands, London.-; We will not worry about sneed so long as we complete our 33,000 mile journey,■ Forty food and petrol denots are being placed at intervals of 200 miles aiontr the North Pacific. The aeroplane will be the finest ever built, and will include a wireless direction finder, which will register the height from the sea, and the distance from land. A machine gun will be car-: ried in case of trouble with the headhunters of Formosa.”—A. and N.Z. Cable. [Captains Macmillan and Malins accompanied Major Blake in his attempt last year to fly round the world. Their, machine was wrecked off the Indian coast,, and the flight had to be abandoned.]