DEATH DEFYING EXPERIMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18459, 28 December 1929, Page 17

DEATH DEFYING EXPERIMENTS.

Planned By Air Pilots.

PERILS OF FAST FLYING. (United Press Aasociation—By Eleetrie Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received December 29, 8 p.m.) LONDON, December 26. Picked Air Force pilots will shortly indulge in death-defying experiments at Felixstowe, to ascertain whether pilots are rendered unconscious when racing seaplanes make sharp turns at a speed of 300 to 400 miles an hour. It is known that pilots experience a “blackout,” under such circumstances, but the exact physical effect is unknown. Air Force men will deliberately turn their racing craft at higher speeds, in order to produce “blackout,” in order to study the effect of the turn. The only high speed teamster, who has not yet experienced -it, is FlightLieutenant Stanforth, a GloucesterNapier racing pilot, who, his comrades say, has a “cast-iron stomach.” GROWING LIST OF DISASTERS. LOSS OF FRENCH AIRMEN. (United Press Association —By Elecfcrlo Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, December 26. The Air Ministry has been unofficially advised that the bodies of three flyers, Victor Joseph La Salle, Marcel Rebard and Raymond Saltot, were found on the Libyan coast by Italian airmen. The latter reported that the bodies were found in the wreckage of an aeroplane. The Italian authorities will recover the bodies and return them to French custody. The airmen left Tunis on December 15 en route for French Indo-China from Le Bourget. ITALIAN 'PLANE CRASHES. ALL OCCUPANTS MISSING. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ATHENS, December 26. The Italian postal ’plane, carrying five persons, including Commander Rossi, from Constantinople, on the way to Rome, crashed near St. Eustatio’s Island in the early morning. A steamer and seaplanes are searching for possible survivors. Rescue attempts were fruitless. No bodies were found. LOST IN AFRICAN FLIGHT. AIRMEN HONOURED BY THE FRENCH. (United Press Association—By Blectrle Telegraph—Copyrlg&t.) (Received December 27, 8 p.m.) PARIS, December 26. The bodies of Flight-Commander Jones-Williams and Lieutenant Jenkins, were landed at Marseilles and are coming overhand in special coach. Flight-Captain Costes, whose record they attempted to beat, is going to England to attend the funeral. BIGGER AIRSHIPS PROPOSED. PLANS OF GERMAN BUILDERS. (United Press Association—By J3ectrle Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received December 27, 7.30 p.m.) BERLIN, December 26. Commander Eckner begins the construction of L 2-128, a sister ship of the Graf Zeppelin, in the New Year. The vessel will be 740 ft long and bigger than RlOl with ample passenger accommodation.