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AUGUST 2, 1928 ••-.. A1RISMST Another London-Cape Flight ANOTHER light 'plane flight to the Cape started fromCroydon on July 29, when Lieut. P. Murdock, of the South African Air Force, set out in an Avro " Avian " at 5 p.m.for Lympne for an attempt to fly to Cape Town in record time. One feature of the flight will be to demonstrate thepossibility of flying over the Sudan during the rainy season.- We understand that before his departure Lieut. Murdockconsulted Sir Alan Cobham regarding the flight. Early on July 30 he proceeded from Lympne and reached Marignanaerodrome, Marseilles, at 2.25 p.m. He left again next morning for Catania, Sicily, where he arrived at 5.35 p.m.Light 'Plane Lands on Jungfrau PILOTED by Capt. Wirth, a Klemn-Daimler light 'planelanded on the Jungfrau ridge on July 24. Capt. Wirth flew from Thun, and made a perfect landing on the ridge,where he met with an enthusiastic reception from a party of British and other tourists assembled there to meet him.On July 26 he succeeded, in spite of a strong wind, in taking off from the ridge, and flew to Lausanne.Atlantic Flight Failure MR. BERT HANSELL and Mr. Parker Cramer set outfrom Rockford, Illinois, on July 26, in an attempt to fly to Stockholm, via Greenland. They were in the air for barelyhalf an hour, however, when the machine—which was carrying some 400 gallons of petrol—crashed into a maizefield, and was badly damaged. The airmen escaped injury. Crash Terminates Rome-Brazil Flight WHEN Capt. Ferrarin and Maj. del Prete, who recentlymade a non-stop flight from Rome to Brazil, proceeded to continue their journey on July 30—after having repaired F0URV1NDS the slight damage sustained when landing near Port Natal—they met with an unfortunate accident. The Savoia Mar- chetti S64, when landing on the beach at Port Natal, strucka soft patch and overturned. While the airmen escaped injury, the machine was completely wrecked.Poland-Baghdad Flight Ends in Disaster A FINE non-stop flight from Poland to Baghdad came toan unfortunate conclusion on July 31. A three-engined (Wright " Whirlwind ") Fokker monoplane piloted by Lieut.Kalina and carrying Lieut. Czalas and a mechanic, left Lublin on July 30 on a non-stop flight to Baghdad, thence toCairo and back to Warsaw. The machine arrived over Baghdad at about 2 a.m., and circled over the town, the pilotapparently waiting for daylight before attempting to land— although the RAF. set out landing flares. Some 3 hourslater, in the half light of dawn, they came down to land, but in doing so the machine struck the flood protection banksurrounding the aerodrome, and turned over. The R.A.F. rendered prompt assistance, but Lieut. Czalas sustained afractured skull and died shortly afterwards. Lieut. Kalina and the mechanic escaped with slight injuries, and receivedtreatment at the R.A.F. hospital. Another Polish Fatality DURING a flight over the Kaliscz district on July 30 twoofficers of the Polish Air Force lost control of their machine and crashed, both being killed.A D.H. 50 "Jupiter " in Queensland A NEW D.H. 50 aeroplane, fitted with a "Bristol"Jupiter engine, acquired by the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services, Ltd., was recently christened byLady Goodwin, wife of Sir John Goodwin, Governor of AN ECHO OF THE SAN FRANCISCO FLIGHT : An aerial view of Eagle Farm Aerodrome, Brisbane, showingthe Fokker monoplane " Southern Cross," in which Capt. Kingsford Smith, Mr. C. Ulm, Lieut. H. W. Lyons, and Mr. J. Warner flew from San Francisco to Australia across the Pacific. The photograph was taken imme-diately after their arrival on June 9. 675
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