PROGRESS IN AVIATION.

Otago Witness, Issue 3415, 29 August 1919, Page 25

PROGRESS IN AVIATION.

. ■♦■ (By Cable.) LONDON, August 24. The Handley-Page Company is opening a daily passenger service between London and Pans on Monday. Each machine will carry 10 passengers, and the fare will be 15 guineas. The Aires aeroplanes are .establishing a daily goods service. Freight rates will be 7s 6d per lb to Paris. Britain and America are requesting permission from Spain to establish aeroplane landing grounds, also ! an observatory at Teneriffe (Canary Islands). The Goliath machine reported missing on August 16 has been found near Dakar (West Africa) with a broken propeller. The crew are safe. August 26. The first "Aero's" return journey from Paris was completed in schedule time. It left Hounslow at 9 a.m. and returned at 2.45 p.m. VANCOUVER, August 22. Mr Thomas Ince has offered a prize of 10,000dol for a Transpacific aeroplane flight from California to either Australia, Japan, China, or the Philippines, to be completed within 12 days. A prize of 2000dol goes to the first machine to reach Hawaii. LONDON, August 27. Hawker, the Australian aviator, has entered for the international seaplane race on the 19th September —10 laps of a 20 mile course, embracing Bournemouth, Swanage, ' and Christchurch. Italy and France are competing. The prize is 20,000 francs and a trophy of a similar value. INTERNATIONAL AERIAL DERBY RACE. NEW YORK, August 25. The International Aerial Derby race from Mineola, New York, to Toronto and return has started. There are many entrants, including American army and navy airmen. August 26. Thirteen aeroplanes have arrived at Albany from Toronto. "Colonel Barker, a Canadian "ace," has arrived at Mineola, and is preparing to return. Three out of the 12 Canadian machines reached Roosevelt, landing in a field in New York. The other nine were unable to continue the journey from Albany", owing to adverse weather. Sergeant C. B. Coombs arrived first, his flight time being 6h 21min. Roland Rholfs was second, and Major Scliroeder third. These three planes will start on the return flight to Toronto to-day. None of the 29 American aeroplanes which left New York for Toronto has reached its destination, owing to weather conditions and accidents. August 27. Lieutenant Plumb and Lieutenant Maynard, both Americans, completed the flight from New York to Toronto and back in the international airplane race. Both encountered severe weather conditions. Major Schreeder (American), who is probably the winner of the race, completed the trip from Toronto to New York and back in a flying time of 575 minutes, despite bad weather.