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FLIGHT, APRIL 11, 1929 India Air Mail Arrives A WEEK after it had been despatched by air from London, the India mail arrived punctually at Karachi. The Arm- strong-Whitworth " Argosy " (" Jaguars ") left Croydon on Saturday, March 30, and arrived at Paris and Basle the same day. Passengers and mail then continued by train to Genoa, where, on Sunday, they embarked in the Short " Calcutta " (" Jupiters ") flying-boat for Naples. On Monday, Athens, via Corfu, was reached, and on Tuesday the flying-boat stage was completed, via Tobruk, at Alexandria. The stage to Gaza was flown on Wednesday in the D.H. " Hercules " (" Jupiters "), continued to Baghdad on Thursday, and to Lingeh, on the Persian Gulf, via Bushire, on Friday. This last stage was slightly delayed by a sand-storm which made the machine turn back to Baghdad, but it resumed later on the same day and was only 45 minutes late at Lingeh, 845 miles distant. On Saturday, the machine reached Karachi after a flight of 840 miles, thus completing the Empire service of about 5,000 miles within the scheduled time of one week. Sir Samuel Hoare and his secretary, Mr. LI. Bullock, left the route at Alexandria, but Air Vice-Marshal Sir Vyell Vyvyan completed the whole journey and mentioned, when inter- viewed, that it had been most comfortable. Actual flying time was 53 hrs. 35 mins. On the first return flight of the mail service which started at Karachi the next day, Sunday, April 7, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Geoffrey Salmond, Viscount Chetwynd, his daughter and secretary, and Air Vice-Marshal Sir Vyell Vyvyan were passengers. On April 8 the arrival at Basra was reported. On April 9 the machine left Baghdad three hours before time, without local mails. Air Force machines were dispatched with the mails, hoping to catch up the "run-away," which, however, left Cairo for Alexandria in the evening, still ahead ! Air Minister's African Tour SIR SAMUEL HOARE commenced his air tour along the Cairo-Cape route after disembarking from the India air service " Calcutta " flying-boat at Alexandria on April 2. With his secretary, Mr. LI. Bullock, and Air Vice-Marshal Webb-Bowen (Air Officer Commanding, R.A.F., Middle East), he left Aboukir on April 4 and landed at Khartoum the next day, after a night at Luxor. Khartoum was left on April 6. Southern Cross Still Missing THE search for the missing Southern Cross (Fokker) monoplane in north-west Australia, where it is thought to have landed during its non-stop flight from Sydney, which started on March 30, has proved that it was the Port George mission station, on the north-west coast, upon which a note was dropped from the monplane the day after its start. This note asked for the direction to Wyndham. Later that day it is thought that the airmen, Sqdn.-Ldr. Kingsford-Smith and Flight-Lieut. C. Ulm, discovered that only one hour's petrol remained, and they turned back for the Mission. They sent a wireless message later stating that they were forced to land and all hands were exhausted. Extensive aircraft search has been made since then. The Western Australian Government has taken the matter in hand, and the Western Australian Airways Co. is temporarily suspending its north-west air service in order to release their machines for the search. This flight was intended to be the first stage of a flight to England. Vague reports of the missing airmen still continue to come in. American Light 'Plane Tour Mishap CAPT. W. N. LANCASTER crashed at Port of Spain, Innidad, on April 7, whilst taking off for the next stage of his American tour to Maracay, Venezuela. His American( 'rrus-Avian " was apparently wrecked and he was slightly injured. He was competing for a gold medal offered for the irst light plane flight from New York to South America and t><"*, a distance of about 10,000 miles. Atlantic Plight Competition COL. W. E. EASTERWOOD, JUN., a Texas millionaire, is \ti°rt^d t0 have arrived in London in connection with an st- f J fiight competition which he is promoting. He is ^ated to be offering £5,000 for the first successful flight from i h ?6 n New York and Dallas, Texas. It is also stated ( o f nerman Pilot> Maj. Otto Schey, and an Italian pilot,ui u Delmatta, have notified their intention of competing. Col. Easterwood is to tour Europe by air to interest other competitors. French Flight to Indo-China MM. BAILLY, Resinensi and Marsot, who left Paris for Indo-China, on March 26, in a Farman F.190 (Bristol" Titan " engine), reached Saigon on April 5, having flown nearly 7,000 miles in ten days. This machine is a cabin monoplane type. Business Magnate's Mishap THE long business air tour of Mr. Van Lear Black, the American millionaire, met with a slight mishap on April 5 when his Fokker (Wright " Whirlwinds ") monoplane made a forced landing after starting from Rome for Paris. Appa- rently engine trouble arose, and whilst it was landing over the mouth of the Nervia torrent the monoplane was seriously damaged. The crew were shaken, but uninjured, Spanish Flight in S. America THE two Spanish airmen, Capt. Jimenez and Capt. Iglesias, who recently flew the S. Atlantic from Seville to Brazil, are continuing their air tour of S. America. In their Spanish-built Breguet 19 (Hispano-Suiza), they landed at Buenos Aires on April 4. Graf Zeppelin's Programme At the end of this month the Graf Zeppelin will probably commence another Mediterranean cruise of about 60 hours' duration. In May, a cruise may be made over Austria, whilst later in that month a second Atlantic fiight is projected. If this is successful it may be repeated in June. The pro- gramme arranged also provides for a cruise to East Germany at the end of the summer with an intermediate landing in Berlin. The Atlantic flights will be regarded as a further opportunity for training the crew. The number of passengers carried will be limited, the fare being £150, whilst the Press monopoly, which was in vogue on the last Atlantic cruise, will be dropped. If newspapers wish to be represented they will have to send their representatives as ordinary passengers. More " Moths " for China CHINA has ordered twelve more " Gipsy-Moths " from the De Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., which brings their order to 22 since the beginning of this year. Baghdad- Teheran Air Service ON April 6 the first direct weekly air mail service between Baghdad and Teheran was due to start from Teheran. The return flight will commence April 12, and every successive Friday. Swedish Atlantic Flight Planned THE Swedish pilot, Ahrenberg, proposes to start on a Transatlantic flight next June, following a course via Iceland, Greenland and Labrador. French Prize for Autogiro Inventor SENOR DE LA CIERVA, the inventor of the Autogiro, has been awarded the Lohm Prize by a commission of the Aero Club de France. This means an annuity of £240, and it was awarded for the Autogiro flight from London to Paris. German Gliding Record A DARMSTADT pilot, Herr Nehring, has made a gliding flight of 44£ miles in a straight line, breaking the record set up by himself last year by nearly 875 yards. The flight was made along the so-called Bergstrasse from Darmstadt, in Hessen, to Bruchsal, in Baden. A prize of 5,000 marks [£2501 has been offered by a Berlin newspaper for a gliding flight in a straight line of 62 miles. New Malta Aerodrome IT is reported from Malta that the R.A.F. is to construct another large aerodrome close to that at Halfar. Imperial Airways IMPERIAL AIRWAYS celebrated its fifth birthday on April 1. Since April 1, 1924, Imperial Airways has com- pleted, on Handley Page and Argosy air-liners, over four million miles on London-Continental routes, and carried over 100,000 passengers. There has been no accident resulting in injury to any fare-paying passenger during the last four years. Air Line Performance A FLIGHT between London and Paris was made on April 1 by an Armstrong-Siddeley air-liner of Imperial Airways in 100 mins. The machine, which weighs over 8 tons, carried 18 passengers and a crew of three. 299
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