AVIATION
FIRST CHANNEL FLYER. A COMMEMORATIVE FLIGHT. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, July 27. (Received July 28, at 6.5 p.m.) Louis Bleriot, who first flew the Channel in 1909, commemoratively flew from Le Bourget to Dover in the latest Bleriot monoplane, accompanied by two navigators and a pilot. Eleven Air Force aeroplanes met the Frenchmen, near Dover Cliffs and escorted them to Swingate aerodrome, where crowds wildly cheered the beautiful landing. The Mayor, the French Consul, and Sir Sefton Branckner welcomed the flyers in the meadow where Bleriot first landed after a flight of 37 minutes, compared with to-day’s flight of 15 minutes. Bleriot said that with eight refuelling stations in the Atlantic planes would proceed from London to America in 1949 as easily as they do from London to Paris nowadays.—Australian Press Association.
NEW GERMAN MACHINE,
TEST ON LAKE CONSTANCE,
BERLIN, July 20. (Received July 28, at 5.5 p.iu.) , A Dornier Dox machine made a perfect flight, rising from Lake Constance with 48 tons of ballast.—Australian Press Association. ITALIAN NAVAL SEAPLANE. PLIGHT ALONG THE COAST. ROME, July 27. (Received July 28, at 6.5 p.m.) A naval seaplane which was piloted by the Under-secretary for Air (Major Maddelena) and carried Signor Mussolini, landed at Rimini after a flight along the coast via Naples, Messina and Brindisi. The plane covered 1250 miles in 10 hours 50 minutes. —Australian Press Association. CRASHES ON BLUE MOUNTAINS. TWO AEROPLANES DAMAGED. SYDNEY, July 28. (Received,May 2D, at 1 a.m.) Two aeroplanes which were crossing the Blue Mountains crashed and were badly damaged. The pilots escaped, but a man and his wife, who were passengers, were seriously injured.
SUSTAINED FLIGHT RECORD,
PLANE STILL FLYING. NEW YORK, July 27. (Received July 28, at 11 p.m.) The St. Louis-Robin aeroplane had been 350 hours in the air at 9.17 on Saturday night, and it was still flying. Australian Press Association—United Service.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20781, 29 July 1929, Page 10
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