FLIGHT ABANDONED
ROOK HAS MISHAP (Australian and N.Z. Cable. Association.) (Received June 22, 11 a.m.) KARACHI, June 21. Capt. Dennis Rook, landing in semidarkness, damaged his tail skid, which, will necessitate a week's delay. - LONDON, June 21. Owing to damage to his machine, and also because of the monsoon, Captain Rook has abandoned his flight.- / - WORLD FLIGHT AMBITIOUS PLANS NEW YORK, June S. The latter part of January, 1928, is the date proposed by Linton Wells and Lieutenant Wade for their attempt to fly round the world from New York in 15 days. Wells holds the present round-the-worid record, namely, 28 days 14 hours—arid Wade was one of the three pilots in the United States Army's ,1924 world flight. ';• . The third, as yet unnamed, participant Will be a-combined radio operator and navigator. 'The party will use a fhree-engined 'plane, and expects 1 to cross the United States in one leap, the Pacific in three, and then;tO.% over Siberia,'Europe, England, Ireland, and the Atlantic, back to New York.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16373, 22 June 1927, Page 7
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