AVIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21538, 9 January 1932, Page 9

AVIATION

THE SOUTHERN STAR STEADY PROGRESS MADE. MARSEILLES, January 7. Air-commodore Kingsford Smith arrived at Marignane at 3.30, after an average speed of 100 miles per hour. NEW ZEALAND AERO CLUB. SECRETARY VISITS AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, January 7. Mr S. E. Nielson (acting general secretary of the New Zealand Aero Club), who has completed his visit to Australia with the object of obtaining information of aviation developments and facilities in the Commonwealth, is returning by the Aorangi to the dominion. He expressed hia gratitude before his departure at the cordial reception given him by the officials of the Aero Clubs of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. He said that remarkable interest was being taken in aviation by New Zealand, where the Government was affording every encouragement in its development.

TWO WOMEN PILOTS KILLED. CRASH IN PENNSYLVANIA. NEW YORK, January 7. A Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) message states that a widespread search for two intrepid women flyers ended to-day in the finding of their bodies crushed in the wreckage of their plane on Bowers Mountain, 40 miles from there. The dead are Mrs Debbie Stanford, formerly of Guelph (Ontario) and Mrs Ruth Stewart (St. Louis). The airwomen, who were on the first leg of a flight which they hoped to terminate at Buenos Aires, were lost on Monday night. MR MOLLISON’S PLANS. NEW ATTEMPT ON CAPE RECORD. LONDON, January 8. (Received Jan. 8, at 9 p.m.) The aeronautical correspondent of The Times says: “Mr Mollison has returned and he will start a new attempt on the Cape record at the end of the month, flying non-stop to Brindisi (1200 miles), thence non-stop to Khartoum (1250 miles), after which he will follow the usual route.' He hopes to do the journey in 102 hours, or one day inside Miss Salaman’s time. He says he planned this route to avoid Turkey, over which he has no wish to fly again after his experiences at Kohia. He made a descent there because he was chilled in a snowstorm and bitter winds, and he hoped for a comfortable night. On the contrary, he was surrounded by soldiers and marched to a hotel, where he was imprisoned in a room and refused food and a fire until midnight, after which he was accused of spying because he did not possess an authorisation to fly. The authorities would not permit communication with the British Embassy at Angora for three days and refused to protect the plane. Finally they permitted him to go to Aleppo by train, where he obtained a permit to fly. On his return he found that the plane had been stripped of instruments and the dashboard and part of the floor had been torn up. He urges that it is time that representations were made to the Turks in respect to the treatment of aviators.” — Times Cable.