RELIEF PLANE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20124, 18 April 1928, Page 7

RELIEF PLANE

WOMAN’S ATTEMPT MANUFACTURER’S DAUGHTER

PARTY LEAVES FOR MONTREAL (A. & N.Z.) NEW YORK, April 16. Miss Herta Junkers, daughter of the Bremen’s manufacturer, left for Montreal in the sister ship of the Bremen, accompanied by her brother Erhardt, Mr Fred Mclchoir, chief pilot of the Junker’s Company in America, and a mechanic. They will await word there from Greenly Island. Miss Junkers said: “We will carry 100 gallons of benzol for the Bremen. Our principal purpose is to have Fl 3, the sister ship, as close to the Bremen as possible, so that any part needed can be sent to Greenly Island. That applies particularly to the propeller now being used on Fl 3, which is tho only one we seem to be able to locate, which would serve efficiently on the Bremen.

A despatch from Seven Island (Quebec) stated that one of the heaviest snowstorms of the season is raging over Greenly Island, but has uot prevented the fliers from attempting to repair the ’plane. It is also stated that communications with Greenly are becoming more and more difficult because the terrific storm has affected the telegraph lines running through Labrador. Whatever stage the repairs to the Bn mon have reached, it is clear that any attempt at present to resume the flight will be nothing short of suicidal. Mr Roy Brown, the Canadian airmail who killed the famous German ace, Von Richtsfen, is also preparing to leave for Greenly in a four-seater ’plane.