LONG-DISTANCE FLYING

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19017, 7 August 1933, Page 8

LONG-DISTANCE FLYING

FURTHER PROJECTS. AMERICA VIA GREENLAND. ITALIAN SQUADRON. United Press Assn. —Etec. Tel. Copyrlgnt. LONDON, Aug. 5. Mr. John Grierson, a former pilot In the Royal Air Force, started from Hull this morning to fly to New York via Scapa Flow, Iceland and Greenland. His seaplane has a Moth engine converted from an aeroplane in which he made a record flight from India. The airman landed at Scapa Flow and later departed for the Orkney Islands. The Italian base commander at Valencia Island confirms the report that General Balbo has decided to abandon the proposed direct flight of his squadron back to Italy. The seaplanes will proceed via the short Azores route. This will afford greater security from fog and bad weather. CAPETOWN, Aug. 5. A Swiss airman, Carl Nauer, who flew from- Zurich to Australia, left Capetown at dawn to-day. He hopes to lower Mrs. Mollison’s record for the flight to London. In taking off, the airman said: "I want to be in London just after breakfast on Tuesday.” The Imperial air mail and moneyorder service has been extended to Kenya, Uganda, Taganyika Territory, Palestine and Transjordania. •BERLIN, Aug. 5. The Graf Zeppelin, with 15 passengers on hoard, left Freidrichshafen for Rio de Janeiro to-day. This is the first trip of a fortnightly airship service to South America. OUT FOR A RECORD. FRENCHMEN’S ENTERPRISE. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. NEW YORK, Aug. 6. A transatlantic flight to "nowhere” was started from—Brooklyn at 4.41 a.m. yesterday by MM. Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos. The two airmen are attempting* to create a long-distance record. Before they left the fliers said they planned to reach the English coast and keep going. They were well supplied with food and carried a wireless equipment in their machine. The Radio Marine Corporation received a message at night from the steamer Lord Kelvin, then south-west of Cape Race, Newfoundland, saying the French fliers* had been heard getting a compass bearing, from the Cape Race wireless station. This morning the airmen were reported 625 miles from the coast of Britany. The aeroplane is named the Joseph Lebrix in honour of the French airman who was killed in 1931. It carried 1770 gallons of petrol, the heaviest load ever taken alott in an aeroplane in the United States.