AERIAL EVENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20702, 27 April 1929, Page 27

AERIAL EVENTS.

ENTERPRISE IN AUSTRALIA. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, April 18. This year promises to he a red-letter one in Australia for private aerial enterprise. The first outstanding event will be a big pageant in Sydney next month with, among other events, the Derby Handicap, of £500,. This race attracted last -year about 30 flyers, but the field is likely to be bigger on this occasion, and to attract the cream of the airmen. Another notable air event will be the establishment in June of the East-West passenger and mail service, connecting Perth and Adelaide by air with massive 14-passenger Hercules air liners, and expediting by that means the outward and inward English mails for all the States. This will be followed towards the end of the year by a great cross-continent air race, commencing in Sydney and finishing in Perth, in connection with the cen tonary of Western Australia. Sydney has now a number of airwomen, and it is not'improbable that one or two of them will “ hop off ” in this event if they think the conditions offer them any prospect of success.