LONG-DISTANCE FLYING

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18394, 30 July 1931, Page 7

LONG-DISTANCE FLYING

BRITAIN TO JAPAN. MISS AMY JOHNSON LEAVES. TRIP' ACROSS SIBERIA. (Omclal Wireless.) RUGBY, July 28. Miss Amy Johnson left Lympne aerodrome while it was still dark this morning in an attempt to Ay to Tokio, which she hopes to reach in record time. , r .. Miss Johnson is Aying a Puss Moth machine called Jason the Second, and she is accompanied by Mr J. Humphries, who will act as mechanic. She proposes to proceed via Warsaw, Moscow, Samara, Omsk and Korea, and after spending a few days in, Japan to Ay home again. Miss Johnson landed on the Berlin aerodrome this morning, and shortly afterwards departed for Koenigsberg. Mr Humphries, who is her partner, is a ground engineer at Stag Lane aerodrome. He taught her to Ay. She will follow the line she Intended to pursue when she started for Peking in January. TRANS-ATLANTIC FLYERS. LEAVE NEWFOUNDLAND. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. * NEW YORK, July 28. A message from St. Johns, Newfoundland, says Messrs Boardman and Polando and Herndon and Pangborn were this evening over the Atlantic on their way to Europe. They left the land in the vicinity of Gape Race. When the airmen started there was clear weather, with a medium wind and a full moon. MOLLIBON’S PROGRESS. ARRIVAL AT SOURABAYA. DEPARTURE FOR BATAVIA. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. SYDNEY, July 29. Mr J. A. Mollison left Wyndham today for his Aight to England. He reached Sourabaya, where he refuelled his machine and departed for Batavia.

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MOLLISON’S FLIGHT. MISSED THE AERODROME. - AN EMERGENCY LANDING. NO DAMAGE RESULTS. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received July 30, 9.10 a.m.) BATAVIA, July 30. Flying above Batavia in the twilight Mollison could not And the aerodrome there, and was forced to make an emergency landing Afteen miles to the south. There was no damage, however, and Mollison will leave at one o’clock in the morning for Singapore, thus maintaining the advantage gained by his record Aight from Wyndham to Batavia. ATLANTIC CROSSED. HERNDON & PANGBORN IN WALES. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received July 30, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 29. Messrs Hugh Herndon and Clyde Pangborn, who hope to beat the time for a Aight round the world done recently by Messrs Post and Gatty, and who hopped off from New York at 5.18 a.m. on Tuesday, landed at Cardigan (Wales) at 7 p.m. to-day. The airmen had hoped to reach Moscow without'a stop, but fog forced them to descend in a Aeld. The landing was effected without mishap. They had eight hours’ supply of petrol left. They purpose continuing their eight at dawn.