AVIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21244, 27 January 1931, Page 9

AVIATION

WOMEN’S RECORDS. HELD BY TWO COUNTRIES. (United Press AssoclatOn.) , (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ' France with two and America with three monopolise the women’s air records. , France holds the duration record (Madame Bastil, 37 hours 55 minutes) and distance in a straight line (Mademoiselle Bernstein, 226 S kilometres). America holds the world’s altitude record (Elinor Smith, height 8357 metres), speed (Amelia Earhart, 291,545 kilometres per hour), and the altitude record for seaplanes (Mrs Marion Conrad, 4103 metres). MRS BRUCE’S FLIGHT. NEW YORK, January 25 (Received Jan. 26, at 10 pan.) Mrs Victor Bruce fulfilled one purpose in her round the world air and sea journey to-day when she dropped a flag here on Manx, the birthplace ■of her mother, before pointing her tiny biplane homeward. She travelled 17,000 miles over three continents. She will return to London by steamer. ' i NIGHT FLYING SCHEME. BEACONS AND FLOOD LIGHTS. LONDON, January 15. Night-flying on the India air route, east of Gaza, is expected before the end of the year, says the aeronautical correspondent of The Times. The Indian Government intends to have the route from Karachi to Delhi lighted, and will eventually have recognition lights placed at 47 stations on the 700-mile route. Flood lights for night landing are already used at most of the stations between Gaza and Karachi, and the Air Ministry is arranging for the installation of beacons, especially on the desert between Rutbah Wells and Bagdad, and from there to Basra. It is still feared that nomads, finding these unfamiliar things, may break them. Mails at present take four days from Cairo to Karachi, and regular night flying should halve this and bring India within four and a-half days of London,