TO FLY BACKWARDS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 148, 26 June 1934, Page 5

TO FLY BACKWARDS

NEW AIR PROPELLER AN IMPORTANT DEVICE ADOPTION BY AMERICA 'By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received June 25, 10.15 p.m. LOS ANGELES, June 24. The development of an adjustable, reversible pitch aeroplane propeller, to make the ’plane stop in flight and run backwards on the ground and fly backwards if designed for reverse flight, was announced to-day by a group of Los Angeles engineers. Pilot Seth Hart said that the United States Government has adopted the propeller for army, navy, and air force use. It is regarded as making an important advance in aviation.

A NOTABLE FLIGHT PICTURES OF CRICKET TEST DELIVERY IN AUSTRALIA Received June 25, 10.27 p.m. SYDNEY, June 25. Pictures of the first Test match which finished on Juno 12, were published in Sydney to-day. The Dutch Air Mail landed them at Batavia last Thursday and they were obtained there by Captain P. Taylor, the Australian airman and Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s transtasman colleague, who landed with them at Wyndham on Friday evening. He thence made a 2000milc flight across the Continent, spending Saturday night at Broken Hill and arriving nt Sydney on Sunday with as little fuss as if he had flown sixty instead of 6000 miles.

A FAST FLIGHT 480 MILES IN 3 J HOURS Received June 25, 10.27 p.m. SYDNEY, June 27. Another record flight was made today when the New England Airways Mail monoplane flew from Brisbane to Sydney, about 460 air miles, in three hours twenty-eight minutes.

FAMOUS PILOT KILED

LOST CONTROL OF MACHINE. Received June 25, 6 p.m. NEW ORLEANS, June 24Janies Wedell, a famous speed pilot and one of the leading American entrants in the Macßobertson race, was instantly killed to-day. The aeroplane i which he was flying with a single passenger went into a tail spin. Wedell lost control and crashed from three hundred feet. The passenger was gravely injured.

YOUNG PILOT’S END HIS MACHINE NOSE-DIVES. Received June 25, 7.36 p.m. LONDON, June 25. Gerald Royle, aged sixteen, believed to be the youngest pilot in Britain, was killed when his machine nose-dived and burst into flames on the Scarborough Aero Club’s aerodrome, Heslerton, where Gerald was holidaying. He had been flying solo for two years and was awarded an A certificate a few months ago.

PILOT ESCAPES INJURY EXPERIMENTAL 'PLANE SMASHED Received June 25. 7 p.m. LONDON, Juno 24. Flight-Licut. Stain forth, a wellknown Schneider Trophy pilot, escaped uninjured when a Pterodactyl experimental tailless aeroplane, in which he was taking off from the aerodrome at Farnborough, overturned and was damaged.

ACCIDENT AT BRISBANE ’PLANE STRIKES A TREE. BRISBANE. June 25. • In attempting a landing in a fog the pilot, Mr. Stead Lowe, overshot the aerodrome, narrowly missed a house, and struck a tree. The aeroplane crumpled up and Air Lowe and a passenger, Miss Jean Cox, aged 16, suffered head and internal injuries.