AVIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20292, 28 December 1927, Page 9

AVIATION

THE TRANSTASMAN FLIGHT. ASSEMBLING THE MONOPLANE. (Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, December 27. The New Zealand aviators Moncneff, Knight and Hood are working throughout the holidays to complete the job of assembling the monoplane, and when the necessary adjustments are made they will make several test flights, then leave tor Sydney about the end of the week, expecting to take five hours and a-half on the journey. a petrol test will be carried out, and if received from Sydney in time a wireless plant will be installed. . . The aviators speak very highly of the hospitality received from the Australian Government and the assistance of the Australian Air Force members.

SEARCH FOR THE DAWN

A DIRIGIBLE ORDERED OUT. NEW YORK, December 26. The dirigible Los Angeles has been ordered to leave New Jersey flying field to-day to tour the New England waters in an attempt to find n trace of Mrs Grayson’s 'plane. There was an unconfirmed report that distress signals were heard from the plane at Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Ihe alleged message merely said that there was something wrong, but £av e no loca tion, and storm interference prevented continued communication. The Washington coastguard headquarters has ordered a search of the area, within 500 miles of Cape Cod.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

NO TRACE FOUND YET. HALIFAX, December 20. (Received Dec. 27, at 10 p.m.) Wireless stations and searchers at a late hour to-n : ght had not heard of or located Mrs Grayson’s ’plane, The Dawn, since Cable Island reported that it was believed that the craft was in trouble.— A. and N.Z. Cable.