AERIAL NAVIGATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 24 December 1927, Page 5

AERIAL NAVIGATION.

RECORD HEIGHT. REACHED EY DONATE Press Association Electric Telegraph--Copy righ LONDON, Friday. A Turin message reports that the aviator Donali reached a height of 35,802 feet in an officially supervised flight. This is claimed to be a world’s record. AEROPLANE SMUGGLERS. (Received Saturday .11..'10 a.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. No information has boon received by the Minister for Home Territories (Mr Marr) regarding the aeroplanes in West Australia, which are supposed to be engaged ill smuggling opium. He pointed out Die necessity for having a mother ship of at. least 6000 tons oil the coast. This would make the cost prohibitive, while an aeroplane between Broome and the islands of the East Indies seemed equally impracticable. AUSTRALIA TO N.Z. FLIGHT NEXT WEEK. MELBOURNE, Friday. The New Zealand airmen, Lieutenant J. R. Monerieff, of Wellington, and Captain G. Hood, of .Masterton, anticipate Jiving to the Dominion from Sydney before the New Year. DATE OF FLIGHT. ( Received Saturday, 11.30 a.m/ MELBOURNE, This Day. The monoplane in which the flight to New Zealand is to be made is being assembled at the Point Cook aerodrome, and is expected to be ready for the trial ight on Wednesday. Later it will fly to the Richmond aerodrome, Sydney. Probably on the day of the great flight it will lly to the Mascot aerodrome on the coast where petrol will be taken aboard. The airmen intend to land at Wellington, but the choice depends on the weather conditions. The machine carries three hundred gallons of petrol, enabling it to be flown for sixteen or seventeen hundred miles. TTie Federal Government is extending every courtesy to the New Zealand airmen. The flight will possibly start on New Year’s night. The time selected will coincide with the presence of four steamers spaced at fairly regular intervals between Australia and New Zealand. The New Zealand Government has arranged for the New Zealand Naval Squadron to be exercising off the coast at that time. The monoplane is named the “Aotearoa. ”