PROGRESS OF AVIATION

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1928, Page 9

PROGRESS OF AVIATION

RECORDS IN UNITED STATES MAY TELEPHONE . NYWHERE FACILITIES OF. SERVICES By Telegraph—Press Asen. —Copyright. United Service. Vancouver, April 16 A new world, record for successful leaps from an aeroplane was established on Sunday at Rantoul (Illinois) training field, when ten parachute jumpers of the Army Air Corps school leaped safely from a tri-motored 16 passenger ’plane in eight seconds, at an altitude of 2000 feet.

It is predicted that in « short time an aeroplane passenger will be able to telephone by radio and long distan :e telephone to any part of the United States, while en route. The United States had 4000 aeroplanes in service and factory orders indicated that this would be increased to 8000. Dedicating two powerful beaeons, established on Sunday night on the central and southern Califon ian coast, Colonel Lindbergh pressed a telegraph key at Denver (Colorado) where he landed for an hour on his route east. TRAVELLING BY AIR IN EUROPE. CIVIL AVIATION OF GERMANY. A.and N.Z. Berlin, April IG. - Lufthansa’s summer aviation timetable is commencing on April 24, when the company’s ’planes will be flying almost 40,000 miles a day. Every important German town will be connected by aeroplanes, which proves that Germany is still supreme in civil aviation. She is seizing every opportunity of development in educating the Germans that air travel is vastly preferable to train. Berlin is now linked with every European capital except Warsaw and will shortly inaugurate Sunday services between Berlin and Paris and elsewhere. Several new night services throughout Germany have been inaugurated, as have been several freighters not carrying passengers. A special feature will be week-end trips tq popular seaside resorts on the Baltic and the North Sea.

50 ITALIAN HYDROPLANES TOUR. MEDITERRANEAN TO BE COVERED Received April 17, 7.30 p.m. A. and N.Z. Rome, April 17. Fifty hydroplanes, half under the command of Marquis de Pinedo and half under Signor Balbo, Minister of Air, will shortly undertake a flight over the Mediterranean, visiting France, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, Egypt, Turkey, Greece and Malta.