AVIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18874, 29 May 1923, Page 7

AVIATION

FLIGHT OF 1400 MILES. RECORD FOR ONE-MAN PLANE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, May 27. Lieutenant Crocker has completed a non stop flight of 1400 miles from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. This is a record for a one-man plane. The time taken was llhr 45min. This, with the recent coast to coast flight, it is claimed, demonstrates that the United States can put an air force in the centre of the country and move to any border in 11 hours.— Reuter.

BRITISH AIRMAN’S FEAT. A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT. LONDON, May 27. Mr Lancaster Parker, an aviator-owner, with a pijot, flying for the first time in a British glider with a Blackburn 56 h.p. engine, during a quarter of an hour s flight, reached an altitude of 1500 ft at a speed of 65 miles per hour. The Latter is a record. Later the machine reached 2500 ft.—A. and N.Z. Cable. AIRSHIP SERVICE. LONDON TO AUSTRALIA. COMMANDER BURNEY’S SCHEME. LONDON, May 27.

The Sunday Express says:—“There is every prospect of Commander Burney’s scheme regarding an airship service to Australia being accepted by the British Government during the coming week. “Commander Burney expects to start operations about this time next year with a bi-weekly passenger service from Lon don to Bombay. Later in the summer of 1924 he will start a weekly to Perth.

“The airships will have two passenger decks connected by a lift. One will contain living quarters, and the other wiT be equipped so that the passengers can take the air. “There will be sheds at the termini, and at Port Said, and at other stations en route. Giant towers will be erected, to which the airships will fee attached so that they may turn with the jprevailing' wind.

“The and supplies will be embarked and disembarked by a lift running through the centre of the towers. “The motive power of the ..airships will be non-inflammable. It will be a mixture of kerosene and hydrogen.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.

ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHT

A FORCED LANDING.

AIRMAN BADLY BURNED. PARIS, May 27. (Received May 28, at 8.5 p.m.) Captain Madon and Lieutenant Pickard (French airmen) are attempting a round-the-world flight. They had to land on the Island of Pantelleria, between Sicily and Tunis. Lieutenant Pickard landed badly, and the machine burst into flames. His clothes caught fire, and, running like a living torch, he plunged into the sea from which the peasants rescued him. He was taken to hospital at Bizerta, where he lies in a serious condition.— A. and N.Z. Cable.