LONG DISTANCE FLIGHTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18616, 11 July 1930, Page 9

LONG DISTANCE FLIGHTS.

ANOTHER BIG ADVENTURE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegra oh—Copyright NEW YORK, July 9. A message from Tacoma states that Lieutenant Harold Bromley, formerly of Victoria (8.C.), expects to arrive there on Friday, with a new ’plane, replacing the three previous destroyed. He plans to start a non-stop Tacoma to Tokio flight within a few days. The machine which he intends to use is described as a monoplane, but not of the low wing type, which was previously wrecked in an attempt to take off. It is fitted with a 425 horse-power Wasp motor, and has a cruising speed of 125 miles per hour. ANOTHER FAILURE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright RIO DE JANEIRO, July 9. Engine trouble forced Mermoz to alight on the sea beside the steamship Phocee, 300 miles from Dakar. Mermoz, his two companions and the mail were saved. FLYING BOAT ACCIDENT. LOSS OF FIVE LIVES. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, July 9. Five were drowned, including four passengers, one of whom was an American woman, when a Dornier Wal flying boat, employed in the StettinStockholm service, came down in the Baltic, after a broken crankshaft had caused the propellor to splinter, tearing the wing and destroying the wireless aerials. The flying boat drifted in a heavy sea for several hour’s. A schooner, unable to take off the occupants, began towing the machine, which capsized. The pilot, mechanic and a passenger were picked up but a search for the others was fruitless.