NORTH PACIFIC FLIGHT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 118, 21 May 1932, Page 7

NORTH PACIFIC FLIGHT

AN ELEVATED RUNWAY (New York Times Press Broadcast.) SEATTLE, May 18. The construction of an elevated runway at Boeing Field, from which Nat. C- Browne, the New York flier, will take off on a proj cted r. on-stop flight to Tokio, will start immediatelyThe Boeing authorities have ordered the runway to be built. Browne said he would attempt the take-off as soon as the platform was ready. His big monoplane, the Lone Star, will carry 1000 gallons of petrol, if he can get off the ground with the load. UNOFFICIAL SPEED RECORD ROME, May 18. Lieutenant Neri, of the high-speed section of the Italian Air Force, was credited to-day with an unoffici tl spi'd record for seaplanes of 463.26 miles per hour, established over Lake Garda. GIANT AIR LINER DEPARTURE FROM AMERICA NEW YORK, May 19. The German air liner Do.X took oil at- 4 a.m. to-day for Harbour Grace on the first lap of her return flight to Lake Constance (Switzerland), having arrived here last August with a crew of 14 aboard. ’PLANE AT HARBOUR GRACE HARBOUR GRACE, May 19. The Do.X landed at Dildo, Trinity Bay, at 5.16 p.m. to-day. ANTARCTIC FLIGHT WILKINS PREPARING QUEBEC, May 19. A message from Port Arthur (Ontario) states that confirmation of the reports that ho had been invited to pilot a ’piano for Sir Hubert Wilkins’ Ant.- retie expedition was given to-day by Al Cheeseman, who stated that he expected to receive further information from Sir Hubert Wilkins within a. day or two. Until then he did not wish to make a definite acceptance or rejection.