ATLANTIC FLIGHT MYSTERY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18351, 23 August 1929, Page 9

ATLANTIC FLIGHT MYSTERY.

Another Tragedy Feared

SWISS AIRMEN MISSING. i (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, August 21. There is scant hope of the Swiss flyers being safe. They Yave not been reported since passing the Azores. Nine steamships are in the course but not one of them sighted *the machine. [Three Swiss airmen, in a French Farman monoplane, equipped with a Gnome engine, hoped off from Lisbon on a flight to New York on August 18. They were sighted passing over the Azores, when the motors were functioning perfectly and the machine was making good speed. The weather was reported to be good with the exception of one small patch. The ’plane, flying at a speed of 96 miles an hour, was capable of remaining in the air for 50 hours. It was equipped with a collapsible boat. The flyers’ names are: Hauser (pilot), Tschopp (navigator), and Lueches (mechanic). Switzerland, being a small and mountainous country. has not many aviation achievements to her credit. About two years ago Mittelholtzer, the crack Swiss flyer made an epoch-making (to Switzerland) flight to the Cape and back. The Swiss Air Force is equipped with Dornier machines, made under special license on the Swiss side of Lake Constance. 1