FLYING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 October 1930, Page 5

FLYING.

ATLANTIC FLICHT. RETURN JOURNEY. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Saturday, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, Friday. Boyd and Connor will make the return Atlantic 'flight in the first week in November, starting from Baldonnell in the Columbia. HILL CALLS AT ATAMBOEA. BIMA, Friday. Hill arrived and left for Atamboea at 11.30 a.m. Hill arrived at Atamboea this afternoon, and is to leave again for Darwin. He expected to make a night landing, and hoped to reach Darwin at 10 o’clock to-night. HEADING FOR DARWIN. (Received Saturday, 10.0 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Hill ig due at Darwin early this morning. He is making a night flight from Atamboea. In a radio broadcast by Kingsford Smith at Sourabaya, received in Sydney, the airman stated that he would be in Darwin about three o’clock on Sunday afternoon. TO MEET TRIO FROM ENGLAND. SYDNEY, Friday. The progress of Matthew’s, Hill’s and Smith’s flights from England to Australia is causing considerable interest in Australia. A number of wellknown Australian aviators, including Ulm, Owen and Brian, have already flown to Darwin to welcome the speeding airmen, who are expected there during the week-end. ' VALUE OF THE FLIGHTS. LONDON, Friday. The newspapers are giving prominence to Kingsford Smith’s flight, some predicting a neck-and-neck finish with HilL The "Daily Teelgrapli” says: —"The flight to Australia offers a most powerful appeal to the imagination. It is k most formidable feat in aerial navigation. It is the sternest test for both pilot and machine, but Hinkler’s flight will always remain unique, whether his record is 'broken or otherwise. Not only was he his own mechanic, but in many stages there was practically no ground organisation. The Australian flight, unlike some tests, is highly useful, and much knowledge is being accumulated by the pioneers charting the strange regions in an endeavour to put a girdle round the earth.” GARDEN FORCED DOWN. LONDON, Thursday. The New Zealand aviator, Oscar Garden,, who left Croydon at 6 o’clock this morning for Australia,, was forced down at Folkestone.. / He will start again from: Lympne tomorrow. HOPS OFF AGAIN LONDON,. Friday. Garden left Lympne at 6.17 this morning. MRS MILLER CUTS RECORD. LOS ANGELES, Friday. Mrs Keith Miller completed her transcontinental flight on arriving here on Thursday. The elapsed time was 2ohrs. Minins., bettering Miss Ingall’s, record by 4hrs. 43mins. (Mrs Miller, who is an Australian, first came into prominence in aviation in 1927, when she flew with Captain Lancaster to Australia from England, being the first woman to do so. Mrs Miller learned piloting on that flight, which was an adventurous one. No records were made on the trip, which was delayed by bad weather and landing mishaps on several occasions. Shortly after her arrival in Australia, Mrs Miller left for the United States of America With Captain Lancaster, their plan being to fly across the Atlantic to England. However, this scheme failed to come to fruition, and Mrs Miller for the past two years has been heard of in connection with flights of minor importance only.) ROYAL AIR FORCE. FASTEST MACHINES. LONDON, Friday. The "Morning Post” understands that the Government intends tO' bring the Royal Air Force up to date and is placing an order exceeding in magnitude any in peacetime for the reequipping of the fighter squadrons with the fastest machines in the world.