ANXIETY FELT
NO NEWS OF AVIATORS NON-STOP INDIAN FLIGHT (British Official Wireless.) Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 17. Anxiety is beginning to bo felt for Captain Mcintosh and Mr. Bert Hinkler, who started from Upavon on Tuesday to attempt ;i non-stop flight to India. They had fuel for 47 hours, which expired, at noon to-day. Up to this evening no news had been received of them. They carried no wireless, however, and they may have come down in some locality remote from communication. COBHAM'S NEW FLIGHT START FOR AFRICA (British Official Wireless.) Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 17. Sir Alan Cobham, who is accompanied by Lady Cobham, Captain Worrell, two engineers and a cinematograph operator, left Rochester to-day for his air survey of the African coastline. The huge all-metal flying boat, heavily laden, proceeded up the Thames and flew low over London, where crowds cheered its passage, then on to Reading and Southampton, where it will be moored for the night. To-rndri'dw, the flight will be resumed tb Bordeaux.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16500, 18 November 1927, Page 8
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