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1928 - 0911.PDF
SEPTEMBER '11, 1928 AIRISMSFR£>MTHE Amsterdam-Batavia Air Mail LIEUT. G. A. KOPPEN, who left Amsterdam on September 13 at 6 a.m. for Batavia in a Fokker VII-3m. (3-Armstrong- Siddeley " Lynx ") with mail, reached his destination on September 25, thus covering the 8,750 miles in 12 days. His progress may be summarised as follows :—September 13— Amsterdam—Nuremburg—Vienna. September 14—Vienna Budapest—Sofia (7 hrs.). September 15—Sofia—Constanti- nople—Aleppo. September 16—Aleppo—Baghdad. Sep- tember 17—Baghdad—Bushire—Bandar Abbas. September 18—Bandar Abbas—Karachi. September 19—Karachi— Allahabad (9 hrs.). September 20-September 21 (no reports). September 22—Arrived Sengora. September 23—Arrived Medan. September 25—Arrived Batavia at 10.48 a.m., later reaching Bandoeng. Once again, therefore, have the British Armstrong Siddeley " Lynx " engines achieved a splendid success. The second of the batch of Fokker- " Lynx " monoplanes, which are flying to Batavia at weekly- intervals, arrived at Karachi on September 25. Berlin-Tokio Flight BARON VON HUENFELD, the German airman who crossed the Atlantic with Capt. Koehl and Col. Fitzmaurice, and is now attempting a flight from Berlin to Tokio, was detained on arriving at Bushire on September 21 by the Persian authorities, who were not apparently satisfied with his credentials. He was, however, allowed to proceed later, and arrived at Karachi on September 25 after an all-night flight down the Persian Gulf. He left Berlin on September 18 in a Junkers " Europa " monoplane. Lady Bailey Flying to England THE Sudan authorities refused Lady Bailey permission to fly unescorted over the desert, so she decided to take the West Coast route. Starting from Pretoria on September 21, she reached Bulawayo in her D.H. " Moth " and landed the next day, September 22, at Salisbury. On September 24, Elizabeth- ville, in the Katanga Province of the Belgian Congo, was her stopping place.London-South Africa CAPT. S. HALSE and his wife, who left London on Septem- ber 10 for a flight to Oueenstown, S. Africa, in their " Gipsy- Moth," reached Heliopolis on September 24. Canadian Airmen's Adventure SQUADRON-LEADER A. K. GODFREY, of the Royal Canadian Air Force, flew alone recently across the Continent from Ottawa to Vancouver. He started the return flight with three companions and was missing after September 16, when he left Peace River town for Fort Smith. They were found after several days by Brigadier-General A. E. McRae. The seaplane had fallen into Peace River and became totally wrecked, but the crew were saved, although Sqdr.-Ldr. Godfrey had a fractured leg. The cause of the accident was the dense smoke arising from forest fires. When the seaplane touched the water Godfrey opened the cabin door and thus allowed the escape of the crew, who swam thirty yards to the shore. All in the Wing IT is reported that the Junkers Company of Germany are constructing at Dessau a new monoplanej.38, in which engines and passengers will be situated in the wing. The suggested power is four 800-1,000 h.p. engines. Autogiro Mishap in Paris SENOR DE LA CIERVA met with a slight mishap with his Autogiro (Lynx) at Le Bourget on September 20, without injury to himself or passenger. He had recently flown the Channel with his machine for the first time Wilkins Antarctic Expedition Sails SIR HUBERT WILKINS, the Arctic airman, sailed from New York for Montevideo on September 22 on the first stage of the voyage to Deception Island, which is to be the base for his Antarctic expedition. His companions 'were Lieut. Carl Eielson, the pilot on his previous North Pole flight, Mr. J. Crossan, a relief pilot, and two mechanics. Two FOURVINDS Lockheed " Vega " aeroplanes are to be used. It is announced that Sir Hubert Wilkins has become engaged to Miss Suzanne Bennett, an Australian actress. Cape Town-Pretoria Record COL. SIR PIERRE VAN RYNEVELD, Director of the South African Air Force, made a record non-stop flight from Cape Town to Pretoria on September 21 in 7 hrs. 20 mins. in a Bristol (Bristol " Jupiter ") machine. He recently covered the 1,000 miles' journey in the opposite way in 7 hrs. 27 mins. Mexican Record A NEW long-distance air record for Mexico was made recently when a machine specially chartered by an American business man and his wife flew from Vera Cruz to Merida, a distance of 850 miles, making a stop overnight at Minatitlan. The previous record between Mexican cities -was a flight of 720 miles. Nearly Four Miles By Parachute ASCENDING from Paris in an aeroplane to 18,000 ft., Capt. Willy Coppens (the popular Belgian Air Attache), on September 25, returned to earth by means of a parachute. He made a successful landing, and has thus, we believe, esta- blished a record parachute descent. French Ban on Record Breaking THE French Air Minister, M. Laurent Eynac, has decided to ban all French attempts at records until further orders, on the plea that they mean little advantage to aviation even if successful. He has threatened to resign because the War and Commerce Ministries refuse to surrender any power possessed over their respective air forces. It is possible that they may retain power over personnel and M. Eynac over material. New Packard Engine IT is stated that successful flights have been carried out with a new radial air-cooled engine of 220 h.p. manufactured by the Packard Company Apparently crude oil is used for fuel, doing away with a petrol ignition system. Tests were made at Detroit. American Honours for French Airmen LIEUT. LE BRIX, who accompanied Capt. Costes on a S. Atlantic flight and world's flight, was decorated with the American Distinguished Flying Cross at the United States Embassy on September 20. A similar award has already been made to Capt. Costes. Atlantic Air Mail to Resume THE air mail experiments with the French liner Ile-de- Francc will be continued on the next voyage from Le Havre to New York, which is scheduled for October 10. The amphibian is catapulted from the liner before it reaches each destination. Recently the machine made a forced landing off the Scilly Isles and was adrift for ten hours before being salved with the crew safe. Zeppelin Trials Successful THE new German Zeppelin made another and longer successful trial flight on September 20 with 38 passengers on board and full crew of 39. It flew 650 miles over Germany and Switzerland A Spanish Balloon Accident MAJOR MOLA, of the Spanish Royal Flying Corps, was killed on September 16. when a balloon in which he was attempting to beat the height record fell in flames in the Province of Murcia. The balloon was the one in which he had taken part in the Gordon Bennett Cup contest. Actors' Tour by Air MR. E. STIRLING and his English Players Company flew from Paris to Geneva in an Imperial Airways machine, specially chartered, on September 15. After their perfor- mances at several places they will return by air to Paris. R.A.F. Band Home AFTER playing to about 3,000,000 people (not all at once, of course !) in Canada,the Royal Air Force Band returned home on September 19. 841
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