FLYING

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 January 1933, Page 5

FLYING

THE MISSING HINKLER

UNFAVOURABLE WEATHER.

Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright LAUSANNE,- Wednesday. Captain Hope, accompanied by M. Kammaeher, Director of the -Lausanne Airport, flew two hours and a ..half over, the side valleys. of the Rfipne.' Fog and cloud reduced visibility,, and .tliey had to return when snow began to fall. Mittelholzer, a leading Swiss airman, states that the day Hinkler began his flight the weather was .bad over the mountains of the Yalais Cantoil. Hinkler would have had to ascend 15,?2p feet in order to fly above the clouds. This was.impossible owing to his heavy load of petrol., The Swiss’'airman 1 thinks that Hinkler, owing to fog and clouds, lost his way, and, owing to his insufficient knowledge of the geography of the region, might have crashed into a mountain side. It was a thousand to one against a single aeroplane find in' any trace of Hinkler or his machine. PLANS NOT STOLEN. (Received Fridav, 3.26 a.-m.) ' LONDON, Thursday. The police are unable to find any evidence that the plans of Hinkler’s amphibian plane have been stolen. CAPTAIN HOPS MISSING. (Received Friday, 12,55. p.m.) LAUSAY.NE, Thursday. Anxiety is felt here for Captain Hope who left at 11 o’clock this morning. There was no news of him at nightfall, though he intended to return here. The weather is very bad over the Wetterhorn where Captain Hope, intended to continue his search. NO SIGN OF LADY BAILEY. LONDON. Wednesday. Fears are entertained for the safer, of Lady Bailey, who lias been missing since Sunday night, when she left Oran, Algeria, on a further stage of her attempted record flight- to Cape Town. Lady Bailey had fuel sufficient for 17 hours’ flying. The French Government has given an assurance that everything possible is being done, and a thorough search of the desert by "French military machines has been ordered.

A message from Algiers states that the extensive preparations for a search for Lady Bailey provide for four military aeroplanes leaving from Oran, Algeria; two from Colomb-bechar, Morocco; and four from Gao, French Equatorial Africa, at dawn. ..Aided by civil aeroplanes they will explore the- entire district and send wireless reports to Algiers. : Lady Bailey did not pay the From Ministry the £ISOO required to ensur an air search if she crashed in the

Mr J. A. Mollison decided that if there is still no news of Lady Bailey, he will start to-day to search' for her, using a de Haviland scven : seater air-liner, accompanied by two others.

Mr Edward Hilman has lent Cqptgin Lancaster a big airdmerj/which Fas been specially tanked, in order to search for Lady Bailey over the Sahara. Jan Poulain, the French aviator, who, in February, rescued two of his countrymen after they had been stranded in the Sahara for six days, is preparing to begin a search for Lady Bailey. The “Daily Mail’s” Paris correspondent says the Trans-Saharan Company’s wireless posts at Gao and Reggan report no trace of Lady Bailey, It is feared that she may have forced dow - n in l Tanezrouft, the * dreaded “Desert of Thirst,” in the middle of the Sahara, a thousand miles soutli of Oran. Lady Bailey had no watersupply.

LADY BAILEY FOUND. (Received Friday, 32.15 p.m.) ALGIERS, Thursday. Lady Bailey has been found safe near Tahoua, in the Niger district. She was forced to land through lack of petrol. PROPELLORLESS ’PLANE.

DRIVEN BY PADDLES.

BERLIN, Wednesday,

Adolf. Rohrbach, of the Rohrbach Aeroplane Company, has designed a propellorless aeroplane Avhic-h they claim will reA'olutionise aeronautics.

Th-e> ’plane AA J ill rise and descend perpendicularly, stand still in mid-air, and then turn in any direction. The machine Avill be propelled by the rotation of its oavui wing, each consisting of three paddles, like a paddle steamer.