ENGLAND TO CAPE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 109, 9 May 1936, Page 9

ENGLAND TO CAPE

MRS. MOLLISON’S SUCCESS ELEVEN HOURS CLIPPED OFF RECORD CAPETOWN May fl. Airs Amy Mollison landed at 3.31 p.m. (Greenwich time), having beaten the record by 11 hours 9 minutes. Last February Fiight-Lieut. T. Rose broke Mrs. Mollison’s previous ••cord of 4 days 6 hours 53 min I’ts by 13 hours .18 minutes. Mrs. Mollison, iu attempting to regain her title early last month crashed at Colomb Becher and was obliged to return to Loglar.l by steamer to get her machine reINADEQUATE AERODROMES ( APETOWN, .May 7. Mrs Amy Mollison said that conditions were ghastly over th*. Sahara, and sometimes she was flying blind. She circled for an hour ove’ a bushfire in Nigeria, killing time and awaiting the dawn. Despite her achievement she is disappointed that she had not made faster time, but was hampered by inadequate aerodionics where mishaps were narrowly averted. She is convinced that a threc-dav service from London to Capetown will be commercially feasible when the aerodromes have been improved. ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHT THE MOLLISONS’ PLANS LONDON, May 7. Mr James Mollison said ’hat if Amy had not succeeded he had planned to attack the Capetown record himself. He that he and ?\niv were planning the first round-the-uorld flight following the Equator. He estimated that the journey would not exceed three weeks, FLYING FLEAS ■ ARE THE 'PLANES SAFE? INQUIRY TO BE MADE LONDON, May 7. “There will be an official inquiry into the flying fleas,” sai<| the coroner at the inquest into the death of FlightLieutenant Ambrose Cowell, who was killed when testing a living flea. He added: “Major Cooper. Air Ministry Inspector of Ateidcnts, told me that the Government was giving attention to the matter. There have been seven fatal nose-diving accidents in France and England.” The jury, in returning a verdict of accidental death, supports! the Air League’s recommendation that tib.p Air Ministry should resume control of the inspc-cti'On and supervision of flying fleas.