AVIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20800, 20 August 1929, Page 9

AVIATION

WEEK’S JAUNT OVER EUROPE. TWO-SEATER MOTH USED. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, August 19. (Received August 19, at 8 p.m.) Jumping out of a two-seater Moth aeroplane after havjng completed a week’s jaunt of 2500 miles, Mr Hamish Armstrong, a sheep farmer of Hawke’s Bay, exclaimed: “ Flying over Europe in your own plane beats train travelling hollow.” Mr Armstrong, who* has booked his homeward passage for September 14, was determined to see all that he possibly could before leaving, and he bought a Moth for £7OO three weeks agol He took flying lessons at the London Aero Club, and shared the piloting' across Europe with a South African friend, Mr Borden Stone. “ Last Saturday we hopped to Paris for the week-end there. We then crossed the Black Mountains to Munich, calling at Nancy and Strasbourg, and meals en route. Thence we went to Pnedrichshafen, where we visited the Dornier works and saw the Graf Zeppelin start on her world tour. We lunched at Nuremberg, and had afternoon tea at Leipzig, and dinner at Berlin, where we spent the day. We left for London yesterday, calling at Hanover, Osnabruck, Amsterdam, and Calais for refills, either for ourselves or the machine. We experienced no mechanical troubles, though a headwind between Calais and London necessitated a landing at Ton-' bridge, because wo had no navigating lights. We had a grand time, and will fly about England and Scotland during the week. A Moth plane would be very handy in New Zealand for calling on friends or locating bush fires.”—United Service. TRAINING FOR SCHNEIDER CUP. ITALIAN SEAPLANE CRASHES. ROME, August 18. The Italian Schneider Cup Fiat seaplane crashed and sank jn Lake Jarda. The pilot escaped after a desperate struggle to extricate himself from the cockpit. This is the second loss in a month. Another Fiat machine was wrecked on July 16.—Australian Press Association. LISBON TO NEW YORK. SWISS AIRMEN’S ATTEMPT. LISBON, august 19. (Received August 20, at 1 a.m.) Kaeser, a Swiss airman, has started in a monoplane in an attempt to make a ilon-stop flight to New York.—Australian Press Association.