FLIGHT TO ENGLAND.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXV, Issue 18948, 6 August 1931, Page 9

FLIGHT TO ENGLAND.

MOI.LISON'S ATTEMPT ON RECORD. British Official Wireless (■Received August 5. 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY. August 4. Considerable interest has been j aroused by the attempt to break C. A. Scott's record of 10 days 23 hours for the Australia-England flight, upon which the Australian pilot, J. A. Mollison, is engaged. Mr Mollison left Wyndham on July 29th. flying a de Haviland Moth, with a mark two. Gipsy engine. Reports of his progress encourage hopes to be expressed in to-night's papers that he will succeed in keeping to schedule, and will complete the flight to-morrow, in the final hop from Athens to Croydon, beating the previous record by a day and a half. MISS AMY JOHNSON. HEADING FOR HARBIN. Lfn.ltoci Press Association —By Electric T elcgrapli—Copyright LONDON, August 4. A message from Manchuli states that Miss Amy Johnson flew' over the Russo-Chinese frontier, making for Harbin. MOLLISON AT BASRA. STRAIN OF JOURNEY. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright BASRA, August 4. Mr Mollison has arrived extremely tired and took off at midnight, after a few hours’ sleep. ALEPPO REACHED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 4. Mr Mollison arrived at Aleppo at 2 p.m, after a night and morning’s flight across the desert. CHICHESTER REACHES FORMOSA. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received August 6, 1.15 a.m.) TOKIO, August 5. Chichester passed over Karenko, also Taihoku, and landed at Tamsui, in north-western Formosa, this afternoon. LINDBERGH LEAVES BAKER LAKE. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received August 5, 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 4. Colonel Lindbergh hopped off from Baker Lake for Aklavik on Tuesday at 6.35 p.m. Colonel Lindbergh’s machine for his present flight is the one in which he and his wife established a transcontinental record in April 1930. It was equipped recently with pontoons for the journey. The Lindberghs intend to make the trip in short hops, seeking no record and flying distances well within the cruising radius of the ’plane. Cables requesting official permission from Japan and China to fly over their territory were dispatched some time ago by the United States State Department, but Colonel Lindbergh was informed he would have to arrange personally for permission from the Soviet to land on Siberian soil, since the United States does not have diplomatic relations with the Moscow Government. The Acting-Secretary of State, Mr W. R. Castle, has stated that the flight is purely an adventure for the couple, and that it has no connection with the State Department, whose only object was to lend Colonel Lindbergh the necessary aid. Several months ago Colonel Lindberg ordered a set of pontoons. At that time he intended to use them on a contemplated trip through South America. The ’plane, a special Cyclonepowered craft, is equipped with large gasolene and oil tanks and has a cruising radius of perhaps 2000 miles. It is equipped with double instrument installation and flying controls so that Mrs Lindbergh, who has a pilot’s license, can relieve her husband from time to time. In the front cockpit the instrument board built especially for the ’plane carries all the usual flying Instruments, and the rear cockpit has a number of them in duplicate. The 'plane, the number of which is NR.211, has been granted a ttvadcast licenn*