ILL LUCK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19871, 20 June 1927, Page 7

ILL LUCK

THE FLIGHT TO INDIA Lieut. Carr Forced to Land by Minor Mishap WONDERFUL HANDLING DISAPPOINTING DELAY CAUSED. [By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.] Received June 19, 5.5 p.m. (A J?. A.-Sun) LONDON, June 18. Lieut. Carr’s forced landing at Marti esham with an unprecedented load of seven tons is regarded as a masterpiece. j Onlookers say he alighted as light las a feather, and tire re is not a vestige of damage to the machine. | A minor mishap attended the flight preliminaries. The heavy load burst ; a tyre the moment the machine left I the hangar, and the start was delayed ifor its replacement. I Lieut. Carr taxied for half a mile and the spectators breathed a sigh of relief when the machine rose, but it only travelled for 90 minutes, covering a distance of about 100 miles. The aviators then noticed oil spraying the fuselage while the oil gauge registered nil, and therefore it was impossible to proceed until the cause was investigated. The postponement is disappointing, as the airmen had waited several days for a favourable change of wind before setting off on their non-stop flight to India. ITALY’S HERO THE MABQUIS DE PINEDO. KING TO CONFER DECORATION. . Received June 19, 5.5 p.m. (Sun Cable). ROME, June 19. At a grand banquet in honour of the Marquis de Pinedo, Signor Mussolini sent a message that Italian aviation would strengthen the bonds of the nations of the world. Captain Lindbergh, Lieutenant Chamberlain, the Marquis de Pinedo and others would open up new horizons of civilisation. The British Ambassador announced that the King was conferring the highest available honour on the Marquis de Pinedo. TESTING INSTRUMENTS A TRIAL FLIGHT. CALIFORNIA TO HAWAII. Received June 19, 5.5 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) NEW YORK, June 19. The Army Department has approved of the plans for a flight from California to Hawaii by Lieutenants Maitland and Hagenberger, Air Service pilots, in a triple-motored Fokker monoplane. Tests will be conducted at San Diego, following the flight of the machine there from Dayton, Ohio. It is expected that the take-off will occur within a month. The flight is designed to subject navigation instruments to a thorough test in practical use. NEW YORK TO PARIS COMMANDER BYRD’S FLIGHT. WOMAN ASPIRANT FOR TRANSATLANTIC HONOURS. Received June 19, 7 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) NEW YORK, June 19. Commander Byrd’s flight from'New York to Paris will be made with his North Pole ’plane. He will be accompanied by three others and will probably hop off on Monday or Tuesday. Possibly, if successful, he will endeavour to make a return flight. The latest aspirant for trans-Atlan-tic flying honours is Mrs Luba Phillips, an American of Russian birth, who during July will possibly fly alone from Newfoundland to London, or may be accompanied by a navigator, in which event she will endeavour to make a record non-stop flight from New York to Rome or beyond. She flow Anthony Fokker’s first ’plane, and in 1912 established a women’s altitude record. She carried Red Cross supplies by aeroplane to tho Russian army during the war.