AVIATION.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16829, 26 May 1919, Page 7

AVIATION.

HAWKER SIGHTED: - '' : '"%■ '-j;™ ' * ,! . ", %■■■" -v; .':--. Australian and N.Zi Cable 'Aa'aXi'"- : ■■?-;•.: 0"'- LONDON, May 23. A cableship sighted Major Hawker in; mid-ocean on Monday. While not abandoning hope of the; survival' of the missing airmen, the "Daily Mail" offers to divide "the prize between,'- Mrs Hawker and Lieutenant-' Commander Grieve's next-of-kin.'' The paper also' offers '"another £IO,OOO foi\ competition". -". '..]■'" ."';' ; " ; ;" :s . > /Tm.;FMG|ra-'Tp;;AUSTOALL't."''^I '•'■' Received 5.5 p.m. ..May' 24th. - ,; - ■LONDON, May Martinsyde has entered for the Australian flighti=- ; "■ '■f "-"'>■''■■ '"--_• I .' - SEEN HALF-AVAY OVER. Received 5.5 p.m., May 25th. LONDON, May 23. 'A wireless Press message states that the cableship Faraday sighted the red light of an aeroplane 50.28 degrees north and 30.02 degrees west m the early hours of Monday, roughly in a direct line.midway between St. John's and Valencia. AMERICAN AIRSHIP COMPETITOR. NEW YORK, May 14 (delayed). .An American dirigible left'Mohtauk Point en route to St John's with- the object of making a trans-Atlantic flight. Bad weather Continues A CYCLONE REPORTED. Received 11.-5 n.m., May 25th.' LONDON,, May 24,. , The steamer Tactician, which picked up the Faraday's wireless, states that shortly after the message' was received the vessel encountered a heavy cyclone. Other ships report a cyclone on Monday in mid-Atlantic. " ». ... The Sopwith Company states that Hawker did not carry red lights. What the Faraday saw may have been the flame from his engine's exhaust pipes. TO FLY TO AUSTRALIAMi - Bert Hinkler, a native of Bundaberg Queensland, who enlisted in September, 1914, in the Naval Air Service, soon qualified as a pilot, saw much service on the Italian front, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and a commission, was recently demobilised, and now intends to flv to Australia. He hopes to do the journey in seventeen days..