AVIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21530, 30 December 1931, Page 7

AVIATION

KINGSFORD SMITH MAY LEAVE ON JANUARY G. '(United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 28. Air-commodore Kingsford Smith says he may start for Australia on January NOVEL USE FOR MOTH PLANE. FITTED WITH LABORATORY. {* ■■ BERLIN, December 28. A Moth aeroplane was put to novel use by two young scientists, Schultze and Zimmer. They fitted it with a miniature laboratory, and made a 15,000-mile flight to Central Africa to study plants and insects, bacteriology and anthropology, LONG PLIGHT BY WOMAN. BRISBANE TO WANGARATTA. MELBOURNE, December 29. Mrs H. Bonney, of Brisbane, accomplished the longest flight undertaken by a woman in Australia when she flew solo from Brisbane to Wangaratta, a distance of 1300 miles, in her own Gipsy Moth. > • SPANISH FLIER’S PLANS. LONG FLIGHT IN PUSS MOTH. MADRID, December 28. The Spanish transatlantic flier, Captain Ignacio Jiminez, plans to leave in February on an ambitious 40,000 miles flight in a Puss Moth aeroplane, including the circumnavigation of Africa and Australia, thence to the Far East, returning to Madrid in May.