CONQUEST OF THE AIR

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 28 February 1929, Page 6

CONQUEST OF THE AIR

CABLED ITEMS. Per Press Association —Copyright. SYDNEY’, February 27. ■ The flight of Squadron-Leader ( . E. Kingsford Smith and Flight-Lieut. Ulm to England, will not commence until March 18th or 20th, owing to the incessant rain in YV’yndhani. northwestern Australia, making the hopping off ground sodden. Preparations for the flight are well forward. LONDON, February 26. The “Daily Chronicle’s” aviation correspondent states that an organised effort is being made to obtain a world market for British aeroplanes. Already aviation factories have orders on hand for machines for 20 foreign countries. China has ordered 14 Avro Avian light aeroplanes. Apart from the Vickers-Vellore shortly flying to Australia, orders have been placed for a number of passenger planes for Australia, including several big D. H. Hercules, three motored machines. Canada has purchased the first aerial fire engine, which is attached to a Vickers, Armstrong-Siddeley flying boat, and will be used to patrol the Canadian forests, and a fleet of Cirrus Avian ’planes fitted with floats. These will be used to assist in patrol

work, and summon the aerial in engine, equipped with chemical tn fighting apparatus. The sn ail lakes amid the fon-tm io provide alighting siwces.