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FLIGHT, MAY 2, 1929 Round the World Flight Proposed ACCORDING to the Daily Telegraph a non-stop flight around the world is planned by six American aviators, starting from New York next September. The names of Lieut. Albert Hulse, an Army Reserve officer, and Captain Harry Lyon, navigator on the Australian flight of the Southern Cross, are mentioned as two of the members of the proposed expedition. The identity of the others is not disclosed. This flight, as projected, is to cover 13,500 miles, and will depend largely for success upon the ability of the machine to refuel in the air. For this purpose twenty-three stations are to be estab- lished along the route. The course will be up the American coast to Nova Scotia, across the Atlantic to Scotland, and thence over Germany and Poland and across Russia and Siberia to Nome, Alaska, down the Pacific coast to Seattle, and across the northern part of the United States back to the starting point. The make of aeroplane is being kept secret, but it will be equipped with five 420-h.p. motors. The machine it is said, is capable of a maximum speed of 150 m.p.h., with a cruising speed of 120 m.p.h. Petrol capacity is 1,900 gallons, but only half this amount will be aboard at take-off in order to assure the machine of a safe start. Tanks will be filled to capacity in mid-air before she turns eastward over the Atlantic. Graf Zeppelin Cruise THE latest cruise of the Graf Zeppelin lasted 57 hours. It passed over Spain, Portugal, North Africa, and France during its flight. It landed at Friedrichshafen on April 24 in the evening. The passengers were all very pleased with their experience. As mentioned recently in FLIGHT, the Graf Zeppelin will continue a series of cruises in fairly quick succession during the summer. Enquiry into Southern Cross Adventure THE Australian Commonwealth Government will hold an enquiry into the forced landing of the Southern Cross monoplane and the mishap to the Kookaburra, the machine flown by Lieut. K. Anderson, who died of exposure after his landing in the Australian bush. Atlantic Air Lines THE United States lines are preparing the first aeroplane service to Europe said Mr. Paul Chapman Young, president of the company, recently. Mishap to Mr. F. Mase THE attempt to fly to New Zealand in a light 'plane met with a setback last week. Mr. F. Mase left Lympne in his " Cirrus-Spartan " on April 24, and made a forced landing at Roanne (Loire Department). When taking off again he hit some trees and an embankment. He was slightly injured and his machine damaged. Search for Missing " Italia " Crew AN expedition is expected to leave Bergen on May 15 to search for the missing members of the airship Italia, which crashed in North East Land afteT its flight to the North Pole last May. It will be remembered that when the airship hit the ice its gondola was smashed off, and the envelope drifted away with six of the crew. Those who were in the gondola were rescued. Indian Air Mail THE largest air mail yet despatched from London for India, consisting of over 12,000 letters, left Croydon Aero- drome on April 27. This was the fifth of the London to India mails. The third Indian-London mail, consisting of over 10,000 letters, arrived at Croydon aerodrome the same day, only 10 mins. late, after its 5,000 miles' journey. U.S. Air Lines COL. LINDBERGH, the Transatlantic airman, gave his views on the new United States transcontinental air service that will begin on July 1, says a New York correspondent. This will be a two-day service by train and aeroplane from New York to Los Angeles. The present train journey takes four days. Col. Lindbergh is technical adviser to the company operating the new service. He said : " The company is only waiting for the reconstruction of the air ports along the route to begin the service. Ten three-engined machines will be used, and the pilots chosen must have had 1,000 hours' flying experience, which is 800 hours more than the Department of Commerce demands before giving any pilot a ' fully qualified ' flying licence." Col. Lindbergh declined to give their salaries, but revealed that many air mail pilots, especially those doing night|flying, earned £2,000 a year. Flying-Boat Services A SERVICE of large flying-boats will start on June l^to fly over the Great Lakes between Detroit, Buffalo, and Cleveland. For this enterprise the Ford interests, •which now operate an aeroplane service between these cities, have combined with the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Co. in forming a new corporation. The hulls of the first two flying-boats, which will earn' a crew of four and 25 passengers and will contain a buffet and a special compartment for women, are being built at Lake Constance, Germany, by the Dornier Wai Co., and will be shipped to the United States and equipped with four Pratt and Whitney engines of 500 h.p. each. Irish Civil Aviation A PLAN for civil aviation has been submitted to the Free State Government by a company which includes Mr. Osmond Esmonde, a member of Dail Eireann, and Cols. Russell and Fitzmaurice, late Commandants of the Free State Air Force. The company asks the Government for a subsidy of 2s. 6d. per ton-mile, and proposes in return to inaugurate a daily service by aeroplane between Dublin and London. Croydon and Baldonnel would be the termini, and the State subsidy would amount to £25,000 a year. As later developments the company proposes services between Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Belfast, and co-opera- tion with the Transatlantic services at Queenstown. The pilots would be drawn from the Free State Air Force. The company proposes to raise a capital of £100,000 apart from the State subsidy, and it is said that the Government is giving favourable consideration to the scheme. Light Freight A BOX of flowers gathered in the South of France for the Queen was brought by an Air Union liner from Marseilles to Croydon and then taken to Craigweil House. Frenchwoman's Crash IT is stated that the airwoman who crashed on the Paris- Toulouse Railway, near Brive la Gaillarde, in the Department of Correze, while on a flight to Morocco, was not a British subject, as at first reported in the daily Press, but a French- woman, Mme. Lina Bernstein. Chinese Air Services A REUTER'S report in the Times states that the State Council of the National Government has approved a contract between the China National Aviation Corporation and American Aviation Exploration, Incorporated, controlled by the Curtiss interests, for the provision of air services in various parts of China. The China National Aviation Corporation, of which the Minister of Railways is president, has been organised to develop commercial aviation, and is financed to the extent of £1,250,000 by the Chinese Government. The American company undertakes to establish these air lines with American equipment and pilots, who are to be under the direction of the China Corporation. The company will, it is expected, at once bring over to China 20 aeroplanes and 25 airmen and mechanics. The contract extends till 1939. Under a second contract, likewise passed by the State Council, the China Corporation grants the American concern the privilege of operating passenger and freight services throughout China on its own account and also oi manufacturing aeroplanes and equipment in China. Curtiss interests are planning to form an American company for the specific purpose of such manufacture in that country. New Light 'Planes A NEW Short " Mussel " light seaplane is now in course of construction, and one hears of a new machine called tne Parnall " Elf." No doubt this Parnall machine is an im- proved " Imp." 362
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