FLYING

Wairarapa Daily Times, 5 March 1934, Page 5

FLYING

A DESERT TRAGEDY AIRMEN FOUND DEAD. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Monday, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Sunday. A Fez message states that two Belgian airmen, flying from Goa to Brussels, who had been missing for two days, were found incinerated beneath the wreckage of their ’plane in the Sahara desert. CENTENARY RACE. PLANS OF NEW ZEALANDERS. AUCKLAND, Saturday. New Zealand may be represented in the Melbourne centenary air race by Mr Cyril Kay, of Mangere, and Mr Harold Piper, of Christchurch, who hope to enter and fly their own machine. Mr Piper is now in England. If their plans are realised, they intend to continue the flight from Melbourne to New Zealand, and land at Mangere within seven days from London. —(P.A.) FASTEST OF ITS KIND. RUGBY, Saturday. The world’s fastest four-engined air liner has just passed its official Air Ministry flying trials. The machine, which is a biplane, and has a top speed of over .170 miles an hour, has been built by the De Havilland Company for Imperial Airways and Empire Airways and will be offered in their tenders for the extension, of the Empire airmail from Singapore to Port Darwin and thence to the terminal at Cootamundra.

Its 200 horse-power engines are arranged two on each side of the body, which has accommodation for 10 passengers. The enclosed control cabin in the extreme nose of the aircraft is equipped witlx powerful wireless sending and receiving installations. The plane is capable of flying on any two of its four ‘engines and, with full engine power, it can _ attain a height of nearly four, miles, climbing to 1200 feet within one minute of leaving the ground. — (British Wireless).