AVIATION.

Otago Witness, Issue 3592, 16 January 1923, Page 22

AVIATION.

LONDON, January 6. An all-metal aeroplane, the wings of which are hollow and are built of featherweight alloys, enabling /the carriage of aero engines, fuel, and cargo therein, has been planned bv a German scientist. Even the mechanic and crew will be able to move inside the vast wings, which will lift 100 to.*is and carry 60 passengers. January 8. Sir Keith Smith has arrived* at Liverpool after a visit to the Far E /. Canada, and the United States to m.ue landing arrangements for his world flight. January 11. During a test flight a large nassengercarrying De Haviland aeroplane nosedived and crashed at Stanmore Common, Middlesex, killing two men and injuring three. The dead include Captain Keyes, the pilot who brought down a Zeppelin at Scarborough. . FOUR LIVES LOST. NEW YORK, January 13. A telegram from Miami (Florida) cays passenger seaplane flying between Key West ana Cuba sank in mid-sea. Later reports show that four people are dead, including two children and a woman. Five persons, some of them injured, were rescued. The plane, which wae equipped with palatial cabins and was capable of carry-

ing 14 persons, crumpled in mid-air, and when it reached the water its pontoons were able to sustain it only a few minutes. Wireless calls brought a steamer, which succeeded in rescuing five out of the nine passengers before the plane sank.