AVIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20338, 21 February 1928, Page 9

AVIATION

MACHINES FOR THE DOMINION. SINGLE-SEATER FIGHTERS. (Pf*e» Association— By Telegraph— Copyright.) LONDON, February 19. The New Zealand Government’s Glostei Grebe single-seater fighters, which have been ordered from the Gloster Aircraft Company, will be an Improved design, capable of 160 miles hourly, ground level. A.- and N.Z. Cable. COMMERCIAL SPEED RECORD. LONDON TO PARIS, (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 13. (Received Fob. 20, at 5.5 p.m.) All commercial air speed records for a flight between London and Paris were broken yesterday, when a Handley-Page Jupiter air liner on the Imperial Airways Silver Wing servic e covered 230 > miles from London to the French capital in 80 minutes. FLIGHT ACROSS AFRICA. ROYAL AIR FORCE TRAINING. RUGBY, February 18. (Received Feb. 20, at 5.5 p.m.) A flight across Africa, which has now become an annual exercise in the normal training of the Royal Air Force, will begin on March 1, when four Fairey Napier 3F biplanes will set out from Cairo to the Cape and back. They will travel in formation and to time table. The Fairey 3F is of the so-called general purpose type, and can be converted from u seaplane to a land ’plane_ in under an hour. It is equipped _ with the wellknown Napier Lion engine. ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA. HEADING FOR BATAVIA. ( SINGAPORE, February 20. (Received Feb. 20, at 11 p.m.) Mr Hinkler departed this morning for Batavia.—Sydney Sun Cable. DUE AT DARWIN ON WEDNESDAY. SIXTEEN DAYS FROM CROYDON. SYDNEY, February 20. (Received Feb. 21, at 0.30 a.m.) All going well, Mr Hinkler hopes <,o reach Darwin on Wednesday, 16 days after leaving Croydon.