AVIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20704, 30 April 1929, Page 11

AVIATION

AUSTRALIANS AT ABOUKIR. STRANDED FOE A MONTH. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, April 28. Plying Officer Moir and Artificer Owen have arrived at Aboukir from Mersamabruh, where they had .been stranded for a month.—Australian Press Association— United Service. MAKING FLYING CHEAPER. a tiny single seater. LONDON, April 28. Colonel Henderson and Captain Pearson, two war-time aviators, have built a tiny single-seater aeroplane, which has been successfully tested at Brooklands. Colonel Henderson says that flying cannot be popular till it' is cheaper. The monoplane is saleable at £350. It can fly 85 miles an hour, do 40 mij[es to the gallon, and two people can take it to pieces and push it into any garage.—Australian Press Association. CRASH IN LOS ANGELES, ACTORS BURNED TO DEATH. NEW YORK, April 29. (Received April 30, at 0.15 a.m.) News from Los Angeles' states that while they .were giving a new travel plane its first flight, William Oviatt and two companions, Ray Scott and Mack F Inker, crashed and were burned to death. , All were connected with the stage or the movies, Oviatt had just received the plane from his father.— United Service.