ALL DROMES LIT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 5

ALL DROMES LIT

WAITING FOR CLOUSTON BID FOR AIR PRIZE LLEWELLYN’S BAD LUCK CRASH WHEN IN LEAD fElec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Oct. 3, 11.40 a.m.) JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 2. All aerodromes are being lighted tonight in expectation of a possible resumption of the flight by the New Zealander in the air race from Portsmouth, Flying-Officer A. E. Clouston, in the hope of finishing on Sunday to qualify for tlie handicap prize. Au Entebbe message says that FlyingOfficer Clouston arrived _ there at 4.48 p.m., British standard time.

It is revealed that Flying-Officer D. Llewellyn was four hours ahead of Scott when, the former crashed owing to a shortage of peti’6l due to a leak. Llewellyn crashed while searching for a landing place after his inability to find the Abercorn aerodrome. The plane bit some trees and overturned and was completely wrecked.

The aeroplane in which Scott .won the race is a iPercival Vega Gull, fitted with a 200 h.p. Gypsy engine of the same type as the machine which the Kenya flyer, Mrs. Beryl Markham, .flew across the Atlantic. ‘ It is one of the fastest aeroplanes for its power and load in existence. Capt. Edgar Percival, the designer, is also the designer of the Alev/ Gull in which Captain S. S. liaise made such high speed over the first part of the course. VICTIMS OF CRASH BURIAL AT ABERCORN FINDLAY AND MORGAN (British Official Wireless.) Reed, 12 noon RUGBY, Oct. 2. Flight-Lieut. Max Findlay and the wireless operator, Mr. Morgan, the victims of the tragic crash at Abercorn of t*he plane piloted by Mr. Ken Waller in the air race from Portsmouth to Johannesburg, were buried at Abercorn to-day.