CONQUEST OF THE AIR.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 9 April 1927, Page 11

CONQUEST OF THE AIR.

(Per Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, April 7 Mr Roosevelt (assistant secretary to the War Department) and Marquis Di Pinedo, commenting on the Rome reports that the burning of the latter’s aeroplane was an anti-fas-cisti plot, said the burning was a pure accident. A boy lit a cigarette, and flicked a lighted match on t.o the oily water, on which the plane rested. They doubted if there was any plot of any kind. LONDON, April 7. Flight Lieutenant Soden, an acknowledged expert of the Royal Air Force, and a parachutist with scores of sensational instructional descents to his credit, in a speech declared: “1 would like everyone clearly to understand that I am not one of those who profess to like leaping from parachutes. Those who say they revel in doing so must have a distorted view of life. Stepping out of an aeroplane with a parachute does more than scare me stiff—it scares me absolutely limp. ’ BERLIN. April 7.

A German aviator named Horn, flying in a Junker three-eng'ned aero, plane and carrying one thousand kilogrammes flew 2,020 kilometres :n 870 minutes—a record.