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JUNB312, 1924 PROGRESS IN THE BIG FLIGHTS ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHTS As far as the Round-the-World flights are concerned, the Americans only have made progress during the past week, the British crew being still held up at Akyab awaiting the new machine—which, thanks to the very sporting assistance of the Americans, is being transported to them with all speed per United States destroyers. It is hoped that Sqdn.-Ldr. MacLaren will be able to resume his journey early next week. Squadron Leader MacLaren states that the cause of the accident at Akyab was due to the machine being water logged by the torrential rains, this causing ultra expansion and sogginess after contraction, caused, in turn, by the heat of the sandy desert and continual exposure. They had great difficulty in getting the machine to rise when taking off at Akyab, in spite of the fact that the engine was running well. Over the water the machine lost height rapidly, and dropped like a stone when they throttled down to land, and they struck the water with such force that the bottom of the hull was smashed in. The American team, now under the leadership of Lieut. Smith, prepared to leave Kagoshima—where they arrived on June 2—and Japan for Shanghai on June 4. Lieuts. Wade and Nelson got away at 8.30 a.m., but Lieut. Smith's Douglas (" Liberty ") biplane refused to rise, and the leader had to remain behind to set matters aright. The others arrived safely at Shanghai, but Smith was unable to leave beiore Paris-Tokio Flight LIEUT. PELLETIER D'OISY has completed his wonderful flight from Paris to Tokio. Although his mishap at Shanghai deprived him of his original machine when but 2,300 miles from Tokio, thisflatter stage was none the less meritorious on account of the flight having been completed on another machine. In fact, quite the reverse, we think, for he had tojfly.pver a by no means easy section of the route on a very much slower^and older type of machine. And this he accom plished with almost the same degree of "hustle" that marked^thejearly stages of his flight. Last week we left Lieut. d'Oisy at Pyong-Yang (or Ping- yang), the old capital of Korea, and on June 4—the day after his arrival—he left this town^at 5 a.m., and after flying about 300 miles arrived at Tai-ku (near Fu-san) in South Korea at 8.45 a.m. The next morning he started to cross the Korea Strait to Japan, but owing to thick fog he had to return to Tai-ku. On Sunday (June 8) he made a second attempt, and successfully accomplished the 120 miles over water, landing at Hiroshima on the S.W. coast of Japan. He left again shortly after and reached Osaka by 2 p.m. The final 300 miles to Tokio was completed the following morning, when he left Osaka at 8.30 a.m. and arrived at Tokorosawa aerodrome at 11.30 a.m. Lieut. d'Oisy and his mechanic, Bernard Vesin, have thus completed 11,500 miles in 46 days. As a matter of interest we give herewith a log of the flight with distances between the stages April 24 . „ 25 . „ 26 . „ 27 . „ 28 . „ 29 . . Paris-Bukarest Bukarest-Aleppo Aleppo-Baghdad . Baghdad-Bushire Bushire-Bandar Abbas Bandar Abbas-Karachi Miles. .. 1,240 930 .. 460 500 340 .. 700 s H Restored Air Mail Services THE Postmaster-General announces the restoration, as from Tuesday, June 10, of direct air mail services by morning aeroplane from Croydon to (a) Brussels, serving all Belgium, and (b) Berlin, with a call at Hanover, serving Central and Lastern Germany and also countries beyond. These services will be of special benefit for correspondence (of all classes) posted in the provinces in time for despatch to London by ordinary night mail. The air mail to Brussels will be closed at the General Post Office, London, at 7.15 a.m. each week day, and will be due to reach the Brussels Post Office at about 1.0 p.m. Letters included in it should normally be delivered in Brussels the same afternoon and in Antwerp the same evening. The special fee payable, in addition to ordinary foreign postage, will be 2d. per oz. The air mail to Hanover and Berlin will be closed at the General Post Office, London, the next day, when he arrived at Shanghai just after noon. It appears that he had trouble with the floats—the copper binding offering so much resistance that the machine was unable to rise. By the time he had remedied this it was too late to cover the 560 miles to Shanghai. One of the mechanics, Sergt. Ogden, found a commission awaiting him at Shanghai, and was forthwith sworn in as a lieutenant of the United States army. On June 7 they left Shanghai for Amoy (Indo-China), and, after a stop of two hours at Ping-Pong Island, arrived at Amoy at 4.30 p.m., having covered the 500 odd miles under ideal weather conditions. They left Amoy at 9.17 a.m. the following morning (June 8), and arrived at Hong-Kong (300 miles distant) at 12.30 p.m. Half-way on their journey they encountered rain and fog, but otherwise the weather conditions were fair. They received a very warm welcome from the inhabitants of Hong-Kong, and were met by the Governor, the Colonial Secretary, and the United States Consul-General. The U.S. destroyer Paul Jones was at hand to render assistance. While at Hong-Kong Lieut. Smith took the opportunity of repairing the float of his machine, in which he was assisted by the British Admiralty there. It was stated that they would resume their journey on Tuesday, June 10, but at the time of writing we have not yet received news of their having done so. June 3 . 5 . 9 . 10 . 11 . 13 . 18 . 20 . 29 . 2 3 .' 4 . 8 . 9 . . Karachi-Agra Agra-Calcutta Calcutta-Rangoon Rangoon-Bangkok Bangkok-Saigon Saigon-Hanoi Hanoi-Canton Canton-Shanghai Shanghai-Peking Peking-Mukden . Mukden-Pingyang (Korea) Pingyang-Tai-ku (Korea) Tai-ku-Osaka (Japan). . Osaka-Tokorosawa (Tokyo) Total .. Miles ... 700 750 650 350 480 750 . 500 800 700 400 230 300 425 295 . 11,500 Lisbon-Macao Flight CAPT. BRITO PAIA and Lieut. Beires resumed their flight from Calcutta early on June 4 on their D.H.9A and arrived at Akyab. They started for Rangoon the following morning, but encountered such bad weather that they were forced to return to Akyab. Next day (June 6), however, they fared better, and safely reached Rangoon, having crossed the Arakan mountains at a height of 12,000 ft. The next two days they were detained at Rangoon owing to severe storms, but got away on June 9, arriving at Bankok after a flight of about 5J hours. While at Rangoon they received a message from the Portuguese Government promoting each to the rank of Major and also receiving the Order of the Tower and Sword. Their mechanic, M. Gonvino, was also promoted to the rank of lieutenant. a H at 6.0 a.m. each week-day, and will be due to reach Hanover and Berlin Post Offices at about 3.0 p.m. and 5.0 p.m. respectively the same day. This air mail offers, for express letters, delivery in Hanover and Berlin the same afternoon or evening, and for non-express letters, accelerated delivery next day at most places in Northern Germany beyond Hanover, e.g., Hamburg, Berlin and Leipsic, and in Bavaria, e.g., Munich. By connecting with night mail trains onward from Berlin, it also offers a useful acceleration of letters for Czecho slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia and the East Baltic States. The special fee payable, in addition to ordinary foreign postage, will be 3d. per oz. This morning air mail to Hanover and Berlin is additional to the evening air mail from London via Rotterdam to Hamburg, recently announced (serving Hamburg and district) and to the existing morning air mail to Cologne (serving the occupied parts of Germany). 387
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