AVIATION.

Otago Witness, Issue 3525, 4 October 1921, Page 21

AVI AT ION.

AERIAL DEVELOPMENT. LONDON, September 26. The Australian Press Association understands that the new Aminan-Ramadien overland motor transport and air route is working successfully, and is giving a great impetus to commercial and other relations between the West and East. It is anticipated that it will shortly be possible to leave Cairo in the morning by aeroplane, reaching Bagdad for dinner. There will be time to pav a week-end visit to Bombay. SIR ROSS SMITH’S FLIGHT. LONDON, September 27. The Daily Mail states that Sir Ross Smith will start his world flight before the winter in a Vickers Amphibian machine. He will travel across the middle of Europe. India. China, Japan, and thence across the Behring Sea, Alaska, and Canada to Newfoundland, the stopping places being 400 miles apart. NEW ALTITUDE RECORDS. WASHINGTON. September 28. At Dayton (Ohio) Lieutenant Macrady set a new altitude record in a Lapere aeroplane, reaching a height of 40,800 ft. This is the same machine in which Major Schroeder made the previous record of 38,180 ft. Lieutenant Macrady was 107 minutes in the air. The craft became unsteady and lurched, and began to fall to the earth, but recovered. The temperature was 58deg. Fahr. below zero. PARIS. September 27. A new aviation speed record of 206 miles an hour was created by Sadi le Comte.