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MAY 17, 1928 African Survey Flight SIR ALAN COBHAM resumed his African survey flight in the Short " Singapore," on May 15, and reached Free- town. With Lady Cobham, he is staying at the Government House. This stage started from the'Fresco Lagoons on the Ivory Coast, and the coast was followed to Liberia, and then to the capital, Monrovia. The distance covered to Freetown was 600 miles. Great Flying-Boat Cruise THE four R.A.F. " Southampton " flying-boats engaged on the Far East Cruise are expected to resume from Singapore on May 21. They have been overhauled there after the successful flight from England. Lady Heath's Return IN her Avro " Avian " (Cirrus) Lady Heath continued her flight towards England from Rome on May 14 and reached Marseilles about seven hours later. The next stage was to Dijon on May 15. Cape Town-England Flight Mishap LADY BAILEY started her return flight towards England from Cape Town on May 12, but had to make a forced landing at Humansdorp and apparently had the misfortune to damage her D.H. " Moth " (Cirrus). Fortunately she was uninjured. Nairobi-England Flight SIR PYERS MOSTYN is flying Mr. J. Carberry's Fokker " Universal " monoplane, fitted with Wright " Whirlwind " engine, from Nairobi to England. He is accompanied by two Germans, and reached Constantinople on May 9. He cabled to Shell-Mex, Ltd., that he " found Shell lubricating most economical and efficient and Shell benzine perfect as ever." That North African Coast WING-COMMANDER J. R. W. SMYTH-PIGGOTT'S air tour of the French Air Units in North Africa by D.H. " Moth " is reported to have ended at Affreville,- 80 miles west of Algiers on May 9, owing to damage to the machine during a forced landing. The pilot, who started his flight from Eastchurch, on April 28, was unhurt. The North African coast seems ill-fated to many of the light 'plane tourists. Wing-Commander Manning has also come to grief there, and Lady Heath seemed to meet a few troubles in that part of the world. Newspaper Air Tour THE Daily News and Westminster Gazette air tour in Europe and North Africa ended at Croydon, on May 8, when Capt. Stack and Mr. Bowyer landed in the Avro " Avian " (Cirrus) after covering 4,250 miles since April 20. The total flying time was 57 hours and fuel and oil costs amounted to £31 and £3 13s. 8d. respectively. Insurance of the machine for the tour amounted to £42, and, in the event of a claim, a further payment of £30 was asked. Actual air travel expenses amounted to £46 18s. Mr. Van Lear Black's Air Tour MR. VAN LEAR BLACK left Croydon, on May 14, for Cape Town in the Fokker-Bristol " Titan " monoplane with two pilots, engineer and valet. The arrival at Geneva was reported at 11.35 a.m. and an hour later he left for Venice. On May 15 he landed at Brindisi, from Venice, to refuel. Italian Service Adventure THE Italian Air Force machines flying to Italian Somali- land encountered a storm near Mongalla, May 12, and made a forced landing after seven hours' flying. One machine suffered a damaged propeller. Another flew to Mongalla for assist- ance. Secret Flight Disaster WE reported in our columns last week the attempt of Lieut. Royal Thomas to beat the endurance record in America. He has since been killed with a mechanic, Mr. Westervelt, when their Bellanca monoplane crashed during a speed trial, on May 9. It was disclosed that the flight was a test in preparation for a secret flight to Rome shortly. " Bremen " to be Rescued THE " Bremen " monoplane which recently made the first heavier-than-air east to west crossing of the Atlantic is 371 to be salved from Greenly Island by co-operation between theUnited States and the Junkers Company. Two Loening Amphibians left Washington on May 11 and flew to NewYork to embark Mr. F. Melchior, junkers' chief pilot in America. They then flew to St. John's, Newfoundland.Mr. Melchior will descend on Greenly Island by parachute if an aircraft landing is not possible He will then try to fly the" Bremen " back to New York. The Paris-Tokio Flight CAPT. PELLETIER D'OISY, who left Paris for Tokio, onMay 8, in a Potez 29 biplane, reached Bucharest on May 9, having made an intermediate landing at Arad, 310 miles,owing to bad weather. He flew on the next day against a head wind and arrived at Aleppo in nine hours. Basra wasthe next stage. He was reported to have flown from Karachi to Allahabad on May 13, and reached Calcutta on May 14.The machine is fitted with a Lorraine 470 h.p. engine. The Arctic Explorers CAPT. WILKINS and Lieut. Eielson, the Arctic airmen,left Green Harbour, Spitzbergen, on May 10, and flew to Advent Bay, a distance of 15 miles. With their machine,the Lockheed " Vega," in which they crossed the Arctic circle some weeks ago, they embarked on board the Hobby andsailed for Tromso, expecting to reach Oslo on May 24, where the Norwegians will receive them with honours. Their plansinclude flying to Berlin about June 1, and also visiting Antwerp before visiting London. They will finally return toAmerica and deliver a short series of lectures. Italian Polar Expedition GENERAL NOBILE left King's Bay, Spitzbergen, in theAirship, Italia, on May 11, with the intention of reaching and exploring Nicholas II. Land. It was expected that itwould be 40 hours before he returned, for the distance was 900 miles each way, and some time was to be spent on theland. The airship was, however, forced to return in the afternoon, owing to fog, and later, during a trial flight,it bumped the ground hard and damaged an engine. New Air Line Opened ON May 14, a new air route was officially inauguratedby the " Sabena," the Belgian Air Transport Company, at Antwerp. It will link Cologne, Brussels and Antwerp, andis subsidised by Antwerp City with £2,200. Airship Lands on Ship THE U.S. Army airship, TC5, landed on the deck of theSteamer, American Trader, when it was two hours out of New York, on May 10. It took off again later with equalsuccess and returned to New York with a representative of the U.S. Shipping Board.Air Crash in Japan THE largest passenger machine in Japan, constructed bythe Department of Communications, crashed on May 4 during a test flight. The pilot and seven passengers, mostof whom were mechanics, were killed. Twenty Years Ago ! Extract from " The Auto." (Precursor of" Fliqht "), May 16, 1908."1 " Farman Pere et Fils en Aeroplane.—Unlike the pioneer motorist with his car, the aviator of today is hardly as yet in a position to thrill his friends by inviting them to parti- cipate in his flights, but Mr. Farman, who has himself been a passenger on the Delagrange aeroplane, has now achieved the success of carrying two on his own machine. On the occasion in question, which was on Saturday evening of last week, Mr. Farman's father was a passenger on the aeroplane during a flight of from 150 to 200 yards." " The British Army Aeroplane.—The greatest secrecy is still maintained around the aeroplane which has been con- structed at Aldershot, and up to the present time no reliable information is available on the subject. Recently, however, the machine was removed trom the shed which it occupied with ' Nulli Secundus ' to a home of its own, the ' flitting ' being accomplished at an early hour of the morning in order to avoid too much outside attention."
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