AVIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21976, 10 June 1933, Page 11

AVIATION

MATTERN’S FLIGHT A LUCKY LANDING. LONDON, June 8. A special message says: Mattern telephoned from Belovo that he was forced to land owing to gases and damage to the stabiliser. He added that he left Omsk at 1.10 in the morning, j Four hours later he began to feel queer. Nausea followed as he caught a real whiff of the fumes due to a leaky petrol pipe. There were only miles of trees below, and his head was spinning like a top. He tried tilting the plane to get fresh air, and he was just wondering what was going to happen when ho saw a clear patch and headed for it, fighting the fumes. “ I do not know how I landed,” he continued. “ I found Russians employed in a workers’ settlement besieging the plane. I crawled out and collapsed. The workers took me to a hut, and I lay in a bunk and was terribly sick. Later I felt better and I inspected the plane. 1 found that T had made a lucky landing, striking the ground with the tail Of the machine and,, cracking the stabiliser. The Russians sent mechanics from Novo Sibirsk, also a plane with enough steel to patch the plane. I shall make it fly to Krasnoyarsk, where it can be properly repaired.”

ANOTHER STAGE BEGUN. " LONDON, June 8. (Received June 9, at 8.20 p.m.) Mattern resumed his flight at 4 a.m. KRASNOYARSK REACHED. LONDON, June 8. Mattern landed at Krasnoyarsk / FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA ATLANTA REACHES CALCUTTA. CALCUTTA, June 9. (Received June 9, at 8.20 p.m.) The Atlanta, which is en route to Australia, has arrived at Calcutta. ANOTHER WORLD FLIGHT PREPARATIONS BY ULM. SYDNEY, June 9. (Received June 9, at 11.5 p.m.) Preparations for a flight round the world are being made by Flight-lieu-tenant C. T. Ulm who, with his co-pilots, G. Allen and P. Taylor, has reconditioned the former National Airways monoplane Southern Moon. They intend to cross the Pacific via Suva and Honolulu. The final test of the monoplane, weighted with a ton and a half of petrol, was completed to-day.