BID FOR AIR RECORDS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19314, 3 May 1937, Page 5

BID FOR AIR RECORDS

LONDON-CAPE AND BACK

PRINCE OF RUMANIA

(Elec. To). Copyright—United Prnss Assn.)

(Reed. Mav 3, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 1

Prince Constantin Cantacuzene, aged 27, of Rumania, flying a Caudron Renault plane with a top speed of 237 miles an hour, and a radius of 3700 miles, departed from Hatfield aerodrome in ,an attempt to lower the England-Johannesburg and the Eng-land-Capo records. He plans to make only two stops, the first in the south Sahara and the next in central Africa, lie will sleep in brief snatches. He is using an automatic pilot.

Prince Cantacuzene made a forced landing in Algiers owing to mechanical trouble, but he later continued the flight.

BROADBENT'S PROGRESS

BAGDAD PASSED

(Reed. Mav 3, 11 a.m.) LONDON, May 2

Mr. 11. F. B'roadbont flew over Bagdad in the course of his flight from Australia to England.

BROOK FLYING NORTH

PASSAGE OVER AFRICA

(Heed. May 3, noon.) LONDON, May 2

The flyer, Mr. 11. L. Brook, who is returning to England from Capetown in the endeavour to set it new record, landed at Broken Hill. He later look off for Kisumu.

ATLANTIC AIR RACE .MRS. MOLLISON PREPARES (Reed. May 3. 9.30 a.m.) INDIANAPOLIS. .May 2. The British airwoman. Mrs. Amy Mollison, to-day said that she would fly from Paris to' New York in July in preparation for the Lindbergh race.