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FLIGHT, APRIL 22, 1932 Qirisms from the lour Winds Mr. C. W. A. Scott Off Again AT dawn on April 19 Mr. C. W. A. Scott left Lympne «n an attempt to recapture his record for the flight to Australia which was beaten last year by Mr. C. A. Butler in a Comper " Swift." Mr. Scott was flying the same " Gipsy Moth " he used on his previous record flight. He reached Brindisi at 6 p.m. the same evening, and left for Aleppo immediately after refuelling. To the Cape by Autogiro MR. J. N. YOUNG, the first private owner of au Auto giro—a C.19 Mark IV 2-seater, with 100-h.p. Armstrong- Siddeley " Genet "—hopes to leave Hanworth to-day April 22) on a flight by easy stages to the Cape. His route will be via Catania, Tunis, Cairo, and thence along the regular Cairo-Cape route. Mr. Roy Tucket, who attempted an England-Cape flight in 1929 is also on his way to England from the Cape with the object of making a similar flight, also in an Autogiro. A French Attempt on the Cape Record MM. GOULETTE and SALEL, the French pilots who established a record for a flight to Madagascar and back last year, left Le Bourget at 5.25 a.m. on April 13 for Cape Town in an attempt to lower the record recently set up by Mr. Mollison. They are flying a Farman 190 (300-h.p. Lorraine) and are taking the route via the West Coast. Finis CAPT. BREMER, the Finnish airman who left Helsingfors on March 19 on a flight to Capetown, via Germany, Italy, and Egypt, in a Junkers Junior, arrived at the Cape on or about April 15. Prince Ghica Home Again PRINCE GHICA, of Roumania, who, as previously reported in FLIGHT, set out from Bucharest on March 30 in a S.E.T.61 biplane to fly to Saigon, Indo China, and back, has accomplished the double journey. At the moment details of the flight are not available, but we understand that he reached Saigon on April 7 and started on the return flight on April 10 and reached Bucharest on April 16. Furlough Flight Finished MAT. WILLIAM JONES, pilot instructor to the Karachi Aero Club, who left Karachi in a " Puss Moth " on April 5 for England, arrived at Littlestone, Kent, on April 15. He has flown home on leave, and was accom panied by an Indian pupil. Mr. J. A. Mollison Home MR. J. A. MOLLISON, who recently accomplished a record flight from England to the Cape, landed at South ampton from the Carnarvon Castle on April 18. He was received by the Mayor of Southampton, and later flew with Sir Alan Cobham to Basingstoke to attend the air display there. A French Semi-Official Flight to Africa M. PHILIPPE D'ESTAILLETJR-CHANTERAINE, president of the committee of L'Entente Francaise, who last July carried out a flight round Africa, has just started upon another mission. Piloted by M. Freton, with M. Mistrot as engineer, he left Le Bourget on April 16 in a Farman 190, this time with the object of flying to Jibuti (French Somaliland) and thence across Africa to Dakar. His route will be as follows:—Istres, Tunis, Tripoli, Benghazi, Cairo, Aswan, Atbara, Massaua, Jibuti, Massaua, El Fasher, Abeshr, Ft. Lamy, Kano, Niamey, Ouagadougou, Bamaka, Dakar. He will then proceed via the Aeropostale route along the west coast to Oran. Shell fuel is being used on this flight. 44 I Must Go Up In The Air Again " CROSS-COUNTRY flying is in the blood just now, it appears, for, apart from those now in progress and already foreshadowed in FLIGHT, several new ventures are reported. Mr. Yoshihara, the Japanese pilot who, in 1930, flew from Berlin to Tokio in a Junkers '* Junior," is reported to be preparing for a flight round the world in a Saro " Cutty Sark " amphibian. Mr. R. F. Hall, of the Lancashire Aero Club, hopes to set out on a flight from Manchester to Cairo next month. An ambitious plan comes from Mr. J. D. M. Gray, of Toronto, who proposes to fly a Comper " Swift" from Novar in the north of Scotland to New- York via the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland, Baffin's Land, and Canada, a distance of 4,065 miles. He is fitting both wheels and skis to his machine. M. Alfons Breitenbach, a Swiss pilot, is planning a flight to Sydney in a Salmson- engined Klemm monoplane. Capt. Jimenez, the Spanish pilot who flew across the Atlantic in 1929, is arranging a world tour in a " Puss Moth." He hopes to leave Spain next August and fly through Europe and Russia to Japan, China, Manila, Borneo, Java, Australia, Straits Settlements, Burma, India, Persia, Iraq, Egypt, Cape Town, up through Portuguese West Africa to Belgian Congo, Nigeria, French Sudan, the Sahara, Morocco, and back to Madrid. Some tour! Floats will be fitted over certain portions of the route. Finally, also in August, Mario de Bernardi, the Italian Schneider pilot, hopes to make a non-stop flight from Rome to China. Antarctic Exploration by Air Two American expeditions to explore the Antarctic continent with the help of aircraft are now being planned. Rear Admiral Byrd is preparing one expedition for this year, and is said to have secured financial backing. He plans to leave New York in September, which, of course, is spring in the Southern Hemisphere. Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth is preparing for an aeroplane exploration in the following Antarctic summer. It will be remembered that he was the companion and financial backer of Amundsen in the successful flight of the airship Norge across the North Polar ocean and also in the attempt to reach the North Pole in two Dornier " Wal " flying boats. For his expedition next year he has secured the services of Bernt Balchen, who is an old companion of Admiral Byrd. Balchen was one of the pilots of the Fokker in which Byrd flew the Atlantic in 1927, and a couple of years ago he flew Byrd over the South Pole. In his book, " The Flying Dutchman," Mr. Fokker rates Balchen as the second best long-distance pilot in the world, giving first place to Kingsford Smith. Ellsworth proposes to establish a base at Framheim, on the Bay of Whales, which lies on the western shore of the Ross Sea to the south of New Zealand. Thence he proposes to fly eastward over the unexplored Ross Quadrant to Weddell Sea, which lies to the south of the American continent. To avoid con fusion, we may explain that when facing the South Pole, eastward implies a left-hand turn. The land will be photographed along the route, and it is hoped to ascer tain whether the Queen Maud range soutn of Ross Sea connects with the mountains of Graham Land opposite Cape Horn, or whether the two great bays of Ross Sea and Weddell Sea unite and cut the continent in two. The flight there and back will cover some 3,000 miles. Another Arctic Airship Expedition GENERAL NOBILE, the Italian airship designer, has in terested the Russian Government in his plans and is building an airship near Moscow. The Soviet Government is to finance a flight into the Arctic by Gen. Nobile in this airship, which is to explore the tract east of Novaya Zembla. Search will also be made for traces of the six men of the crew of the airship Italia who were carried away when the gondola was broken off. Nobile has gone to Italy to raise a party of Italian engineers. The Soviet Government is keenly interested in Arctic exploration, and is spending more than any other country on the " Second Polar Year." The Disarmament Conference SIGNOR GRANDI, the Italian Foreign Minister, sub mitted proposals to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva on Wednesday, April 13. His proposals aimed at breaking down aggressive armaments as a whole. It would he useless, he said, to abolish heavy artillery and permit bombing aeroplanes. The abolition of aircraft carriers was necessarily connected with the abolition of bombing aero planes. Sir John Simon left Geneva for London the same day, flying from Paris to Croydon to attend the dinner to Mr. Mellon, the American Ambassador. He returned to Geneva on the Friday, again using the aeroplane as far as Paris. 364
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