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MARCH 8, 1928 AIR1SMST African Survey Flight SIR ALAN AND LADY COBHAM, and the crew of the Short-Rolls-Royce " Singapore " flying-boat arrived at Fort Johnston—the southern extremity of Lake Nyasa—on February 28. Then Sir Alan held a conference with the Nyasaland Government at Zomba, and on March 4 he left Fort Johnston and flew to Beira. Proceeding on March 6 he arrived at Lourenco Marques, after a 500-mile flight against the wind. Bert Hinkler at Brisbane BERT HINKLER departed from his home town of Bundaberg on the morning of March 6, and flew to Brisbane, 200 miles distant. Before leaving Bundaberg he gave the name of " Hinkler Park " to the town's recreation ground—on which he landed—by breaking a bottle of champagne over the park from his Avro " Avian." At Brisbane he was accorded a very hearty welcome, being greeted by Mr. McCormack, the Premier, and by his mother. Mr Bruce, the Prime Minister of Australia, has invited Bert Hinkler's mother to be the guest of the Commonwealth at Canberra during her son's visit. R.A.F. Cairo-Cape-Cairo Flight THE annual Cairo-Cape-Cairo tour of four R.A.F. Fairey III F. (Napier " Lion ") machines, under Air Vice-Marshal T. I. Webb-Bowen, started on March 1, when the Flight flew from Heliopolis to Khartoum. Malakal was reached on March 6. France-South America Air Mail The special mail (air, land, and sea) service between France and South America—reference to which has frequently been made in FLIGHT—commenced operations on March 1. For the present, according to The Times, the mails from Paris will go as far as Toulouse by train ; in the absence of facilities for night flying this is still the quickest regular route. At Toulouse they will be handed over to the Latecoere Air Line, which wTill carry them in stages to Saint-Louis, Senegal. The machines used on this section will be C.A.M.S.51 flying-boats. From Saint-Louis to the Cape Verde Islands the mails will be carried in L. A.T.21 flying-boats (two 380 h.p. Gnome-Rhone " Jupiter " eng'nes), and there they will be transferred to fast steamers, which will take them to Fernando Noronha. From this island L.A.T.26 land machines will finish the course. There will be one service a week in each FOURWINDS direction, and the time for the whole journey from Toulose to Buenos Aires is scheduled at 1\ days. When night flying becomes possible, and the whole route can be covered by air it is hoped to reduce this time to \\ days. The machine which left France on March 2 for Saint-Louis failed to arrive as expected but was located later by a relief machine about 60 miles north of Rio de Oro, where it had been forced to descend owing to lack of fuel. It resumed the journey to Saint-Louis on March S. The " Los Angeles " Returns Home THE U.S. Naval airship, " Los Angeles," which earned out a successful cruise from Lakehurst to the Panama Canal zone, arrived at Guacanayaba Bay, Cuba, last week, on the homeward trip. An exciting mishap happened on March 2. when the airship eventually arrived back at Lakehurst at 11.30 p.m. Owing to a snowstorm and high winds, the " Los Angeles " was unable to land. An attempt was made to moor the airship to the mast, but the cable snapped and after nearly an hour's fight the airship gave up the struggle and flew away towards the north. At about 4 a.m. she returned, and dropping her land lines, the ground party of 100 men proceeded to haul the ship into her hangar. Near the latter, however, a strong gust of wind swept the airship upwards, with four men clinging to the handrails of the cabin. One man Jell, and was injured, but the others were hauled through the windows into the cabin. Subsequently, the " Los Angeles " was safely berthed in the hangar. The " Inflexible " Flies AFTER being held up by bad weather for several weeks the first test flights were made by the Beardmore " Inflexible " at Martlesham on Monday of this week, March 5. A great deal of secrecy has surrounded this machine, which has the largest wing span of any machine ever constructed in Great Britain, the distance from tip to tip being no less than 158 ft. The "Inflexible" is fitted with three Rolls-Royce " Condor " engines oi approximately 700 h.p. each, so that the total power is more than 2,000 b.h.p. Initially designed by Dr. Rohrhach, the well-known German designer, con- siderable modifications were made in the design during the period of construction at the Beardmore works at Dalmuir, Mr. W. S. Shackleton, who has now had to go to Australia on account of his health, being then chief designer. It is reported thag the first test flight, carried out by Sqdn.-Ldr. Noakes, was entirely successful, and that the machine got GLOSTER " GREBES " FOR NEW ZEALAND : This photograph shows the first of a batch of the latest type"Jaguar "-engined "Grebes " ordered by the New Zealand Government from the Gloster Aircraft Co. 163
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