AVIATION

Southland Times, Issue 20490, 18 May 1928, Page 7

AVIATION

D’OISY’S MACHINE CRASHES. Calcutta, May 16. Captain d’Oisy, flying from Paris to Tokio, crashed at Akyab en route to Rangoon. The machine was wrecked, but d’Oisy was unhurt. His companions, Gavin and Carol, are in hospital.—Australian Press Association. FIVE AIRMEN KILLED. (Rec. 9.40 p.m.) Tunis, May 17. Five military airmen in a bombing machine in a test over a suburb crashed and all were killed.—Australian Press Association WOMEN PASSENGERS. Rugby, May 16. All of the 14 passengers on the HandleyPage air liner which arrived at Croydon from Paris to-day were women. It is stated thar more than 50 per cent, of the travellers on Imperial Airways are women.—British Official Wireless. PROPOSED MAIL SERVICE. Rugby, May 16. Asked whether his attention had been called to a proposal to build a fleet of airships of 6,750,000 cubic feet capacity for » trans-Atlantic mail service Sir Samuel Soare, the Air Minister, said the whole ob«ct of the experiments in connection with airships was to carry out exhaustive tests before incurring any further expenditure and no public money would therefore be spent on airship development projects until RlOl had carried out extensive trials and satisfied all specification conditions.—British Official Wireless.