AIRISMS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 639, 16 April 1929, Page 14

AIRISMS

Owing to the fact that Major Cowper was at Christchurch, no instruction of pupils was undertaken at the Aero Club’s airdrome last week. On Sunday a large quota of joyriders visited the ’drome and were taken up by pilot members of the club. With the second Government plane at the airdrome, making a total of three, the instructing of pupils wall

be considerably facilitated and a larger batch of pupils will be enabled to go solo. * <* * Fifteen months after being put Into commission, at a cost of nearly £18,000,000, the two great American aircraft carriers, Lexington and Saratoga, each 33,000 tons, are to be scrapped, according to a Washington dispatch. * * * Certainly Not! It was their first airplane ride, and the young woman of the party felt quite nervous. “You will bring us back safely, won’t you?” she said to the pilot, with rather a faint smile, as they were about to start. “Of course I will, miss,” he assured her, touching his leather helmet. “I’ve never left anybody up there yet.”—Boston “Transcript.” Non-Stop Round the World Colonel Art Goebel, the American pilot, is stated to be proposing a non-stop flight round the world in June. A Denver millionaire ha. 3 offered £IO,OOO for this record, starting and finishing at Denver City, and following as closely as possible the 40th degree north parallel, where the distance round the world is about 19,000 miles. Colonel Goebel plans to refuel in the air seven times and his machine will be a Sikorsky amphibian. Air Mail to South Africa It is thought that the Union Government of South Africa will support the Imperial Airways scheme for a subsidised air service from Cairo to the Union to bring the Cape within a week’s flight from London. Johannesburg may be the terminus for the machines and the mail distributed from there by local aircraft and I trains. | For the Good of the Game A move was made recently in Ungland to establish a profesisonal company of air pilots and navigators. A suggested title put forward at the first meeting held at London and attended by the big men of English aviation was “The Company of Air Pilots and Navigators of the British Empire.” Apparently there is something of the old guild spirit behind the move. According to “Flight,” the main points of the proposed articles are: Membership limited to certificated air pilots and air navigators who are British-born subjects. Membership to be by election and limited to men \of high record. The encouragement of a high and honourable standard both of practical proficiency and professional conduct. The institution of various measures calculated to increase the knowledge of air navigation and co-operation with ether ) aeronautical bodies.