WORLD FLIGHTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19254, 19 August 1924, Page 7

WORLD FLIGHTS

FAILURE OF BRITISH ATTEMPT. IMPOSSIBLE FLYING CONDITIONS. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. VANCOUVER, August 16. A telegram from Prince Rupert Island says that Sergeant Andrews (Major Maclaren’s mechanician) will enter hospital on l.is arrival by the Thiepval, at Vancouver, on Tuesday. He is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Major Maclaren is well, but ho will require a long rest to recuperate. The Russians at Potropavlovsk debated for four hours whether or not they would coal the Thiepval. They finaly decided to do so. Major Maclaren and his party reached here in the clothes they wore when they were rescued. Major Maclaren traces all his difficulties to the accident at Burma. But for that delay, he says, he would have arrived in the North Pacific a month earlier, and would probably have avoided the terrible storms and fogs which they experienced. Ho does not contemplate another attempt at a world flight. When ho realised that his aeroplane was hopelessly damaged and that it meant the end of his attempt to girdle the globe, he sat on the beach and wept. His feelings were shared by his companions. The, real trouble commenced after they left Tokio for the Kurile Islands. These were just a senes of short Imps. The rest of the time was spent in sittiiur on the sea. beset by fogs. Major Maclaren expressed great admiration for Flight-lieutenant Penderleith, whom ho described as one of the best pilots in the British Air Force. He handled his machine single-handed in all sorts of weather without making one bad landing. Major Maclaren said he doubted if Major Zanni, the Argentine aviator, would succeed in crossing the North Pacific this season.—Reuter. MAJOR ZANNI’S ATTEMPT. A DISASTER REPORTED. DELHI, August 17. It is reported that Major Zanni, in resuming his flight from Rangoon to Bangkok, came to grief, and made a forced landing at Tavoy. The details are not known.—Sydney Sun Cable. ITALIAN AVIATOR’S PLANS. REYKJAVIK (Iceland), August 17. Captain LocateUi has arrived Irom Hornafjord. He hopes to proceed with the American world fliers possibly on Monday. Ho says that if he experiences insurmountable difficulties in Greenland he will return to Italy by the same route as that which he took on the present flight, preparatory to an Italian attempt to liy to tho North Pole in 1925.—Reuter.