THE FLYING MEN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12013, 16 March 1920, Page 8

THE FLYING MEN.

THE IMPOSSIBLE DONE ONOE MORE. THE FLIGHTDESCRIBED Unit ed Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright Received March 16, noon. Delhi, March 14 Parer and Macintosh have arrived at Calcutta. Parer and Macintosh* describing their long flight across the Syrian Desert, which was declared impossible by aviators in England, said they left Ramlesh forßagdad on the 27tb, crossed the Jordan at a height of 4000 feet. North of the Dead Sea they struck a head wind, and soon flying became difficult. They crossed a long stretch of lava formation extending about 100 miles, and flew for six hours without seeing a habitation or signs of living .beings. The carburetter flooded necessitating a forced landing in the desert. After strenuous work it was repaired, but later they were forced again to land in. the-desert. They were extremely hazy as to their location. Having landed in a largo stretch of water they stayed the night and early next morning they were '.’disturbed by Arabs, who told them they had landed on the shores of Lake Habhanijah. not far from Bagdad. Their main anxiety was whether the petrol would hold out. They transferred a few pints to the gravity tank and rose again. The clouds were low and it was raining. The Euph rates was sighted and as soon as Bagdad was visible they found the aerodrome without difficulty. At the moment of landing they had 1% pints of petrol, not sufficient- to circle over the aerodrome. The actual flying time crossing the desert was eight hours and ten minutes.