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FLIGHT, JULY 17, 1931 4JRISMS FIEC/H THE fCLC WINDS p, ris—Tokio Flight Fails THE French pilots Doret and Le Brix left Le Boutgetearly on July 12 in an attempt to make a non-stop flight tf. Tokio. They were flying a Dewoitine 33 monoplane(foO-h.p. Hispano) Trait d'Union, and passed over Moscow in the evening, and the next heard of them was to theeffect that they had to abandon the machine by parachutes over Nijine Oudinsk, Siberia. Both pilots were uninjured.On learning of the loss of the machine, M. Francois Coty, who has financed the attempt, announced that anothermachine is ready, and that a second attempt will be made without delay.U.S.-Japan Non-Stop Attempt Two Texas airmen, Mr. R. L. Robbins and Mr. H. S.Jones, set off from Seattle at 3.57 a.m. on July 8 in an attempt to make a non-stop flight to Tokyo for a prize of£5,000, offered by the Asahi newspaper. After a flight of 17| hours, they arrived over Fairbanks, Alaska, where itwas arranged they would refuel in the air. On July 9 they passed over Nome, but had to land at Solomon,40 miles farther on, having been unable to refuel as arranged. They had then flown 2,100 miles.Another Atlantic Attempt THE Hungarian airmen, M. Alexander Magyar andM. George Enders, took-off from Roosevelt Field, New York, on July 13, in their Lockheed " Sirius " monoplaneJustice for Hungary for Harbour Grace, on a non-stop flight from Newfoundland to Budapest. They arrived at HarbourGrace late the same night. Graf Zeppelin COL. THE MASTER OF SEMPILL received the followingtelegram from Dr. Eckener cancelling the flight of the Graf Zeppelin to London. " In view of the extraordinarilyserious situation in Germany at this present moment, I find myself compelled with very keen regret and disappoint-ment to cancel the flight of the Graf Zeppelin to the London Air Park on Thuisday next. July 16. I hope to beable to make this flight at a later and ;nore opportune moment."Airman Eaten by Cannibals? IT is feared that an Australian pilot, L. J. Trist, wholast month was missing when operating a Junkers mono- plane on the New Guinea goldfields service, has fallen avictim of cannibals. A report from New Guinea states now that two natives have declared that Mr. Trist's aero-plane crashed in the bush, and that Mr. Trist, who was sick, walked to the nearest village. He endeavoured tomake friends with the natives, but they struck him down and ate him after a festival. The aeroplane was thenlooted and buried in grass. French Flight Round Africa M. P. D. CHANTERAINE, president of the committee ofL'Entente Francaise, accompanied by a pilot and mechanic, left Cairo on July 10 in his aeroplane on thelast stage to Paris of his flight round Africa. The mission was under the patronage of the French Government, andits object was to visit the French Colonies in Africa, and show appreciation of their help in the French ColonialExhibition. M. Chanteraine stated that he considered the flight to have shown admirably what could be done bysmall aeroplanes. In this case the machine was a Far- man, with a 240-h.p. engine.A Fine African Flight MR. CAMPBELL BLACK, of Wilson Airways, has justaccomplished a fine 1.600-mile flight in a D.H. "Puss Moth." He took off from Nairobi at 2.15 a.m. on July 9,and flew in the dark to Entebbe, where he arrived at 6.30 a.m. He then flew on to Kisumu, whence he flew non-stop to Mombassa, arriving there at 1.40 p.m. From here he flew on to Zanzibar and then to Dar-es-Salaam,and from here he started on the return flight to Nairobi at 4.35 p.m. Again flying in the dark, he steered bycompass over the dangerous Kilimanjaro country, and was blown slightly off his course, being forced to land, by aidof grass fires, at Thika, 30 miles north-east of Nairobi. An Alpine Crash A GUIDE and a party of tourists found a wrecked andabandoned aeroplane on the glacier, 10,200 ft. up, between Aiguille du Geart and the Aiguilles Marbrees. It wasreported that the machine belonged to Count Bonzi, and a message from Courmayeur stated that the airmen werethere, unhurt. French Air Mission's European Tour A FRENCH aeronautical mission, headed by General dela Goys de Mazeyrac, and consisting of six military machines piloted by the well-known French pilots Costes,Arrachart, Pelletier d'Oisv, Givier, Challe and Delaitre, left Paris on July 9 on a tour of Europe. They reachedBrussels, the first stage of the flight, about an hour and a-half later.Amateur or Professional ? HERE is a really good story, which is also topical byvirtue of the existing controversy in connection with the status of Service pilots in the King's Cup race. A mereprofessional (according to the Royal Aero Club rules), since after flying the whole of the war he has now becomea director of a light aircraft company, was recently flying over a Service aerodrome near London. It was a gustyday, and he was amused to see two Siskins and a Fairey FOR INTERMEDIATE TRAINING: The "Active," designed and built by Arrow Aircraft (Leeds) Ltd., is a single seater of all-metal construction, intended for training single-seater fighter pilots at low cost. The engine is a Cirrus-Hermes II B inverted. The " Active " is very " clean," and is reported to have an excellent performance. 705
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