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FLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 2, 1932 flirisrrxs from, flxa Tftur Mflmrl? The Week-end Aerien THE entertainment of foreign air pilots during the coming week-end by British pilots who have enjoyed help and hospitality abroad will be on a still bigger scale than was anticipated when the project was first mentioned. Visitors from some 16 foreign countries will be coming to England. Acceptances have been received from pilots in Spain, Portugal, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Hungary, France, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Switzerland ; over 50 foreign aircraft being expected to attend. Most of the machines will carry passengers, and one visitor from France, Mile. Deutsche de la Meurthe, will bring a party of five, including M. Bleustin, the Vice-President of the Paris Aero Club. Sir Philip Sassoon will act as chairman at the banquet being held at the May Fair Hotel on Saturday evening. The Toll of the Atlantic MR. CLYDE LEE and JOHN BOCHKON left Harbour Grace at 7.36 a.m. (local time) on August 25 and nothing has been heard of them since. They had fuel for 37 hr. and expected to land at Oslo about 6 p.m. (B.S.T.) on August 26. It must be assumed that yet another single- engined aeroplane has proved itself the wrong type in which to fly the Atlantic. The Family Tour THE Hutchinson family, who are touring to England via Greenland and Iceland in a Sikorsky amphibian, arrived at Port Memien, Anticosti Island, in the St. Law rence River, on August 25, and were then held up by bad weather. They flew to Hopedale, Labrador, on August 30. International Air Conference THE Annual Conference of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale will be held at The Hague on September 5-9, 1932. The Conference will mainly concern itself with questions relative to the granting of World's Records and Interna tional Air Touring. Reciprocal arrangements between National Clubs to assist air tourists already exist, but facilities for insurance, third party damage, customs, petrol supplies, landing fees, passports, etc., have still to be improved upon. The Royal Aero Club, which is the officially recognised body in this country, will be represented at the Conference by Lieut. Col. M. O'Gorman, Col. The Master of Sempill, Maj. C. J. W. Darwin, and H. E. Perrin. New Records for Women Pilots MRS. PUTNAM (Miss Amelia Earhart) has set up another record for women flyers by making a solo non stop flight across the United States. She left Los Angeles at 4.47 p.m. (B.S.T.) on August 24 and arrived at Newark, New Jersey, at 11.31 (B.S.T.) on August 25. Her time of 19 hr. 4 min. was only 1 hr. 25 min. more than the coast-to-coast record of Capt. Frank Hawks. Her flight was more than 2,500 miles, thus she estab lished a new long-distance flight for women, eclipsing Miss Ruth Nichols's 2,000-mile record by a wide margin. Mr. Mollison As recorded last week, Mr. Mollison reached New York on August 21. On August 24 he was entertained at a banquet given by the United British Societies. From then until August 28 he was detained by unfavourable weather reports, and even then fog prevented him from finding St. John, New Brunswick, and he alighted some 20 miles from the aerodrome. Unfavourable weather kept Molli son in New Brunswick until August 29, when he flew to Sydney, Nova Scotia, failed to locate the aerodrome in the bad weather which he encountered, and landed safely in a field. He proposed to go on from there to Harbour Grace as soon as the weather improved. New Aircraft Name THE Westland P.V.6 type of aeroplane is henceforth to be known as the " Wallace." It is the custom of the Air Ministry not to sanction a name for a new type of Service aircraft until it has been decided to place an order for that type for use in the Royal Air Force. An Echo of Salt and Taylor INTEREST has been aroused by a report from Rangoon, dated August 25, that two aviators have been seen in the district where they were last known to have been. The Deputy Commissioner at Thaton wires that two aviators have been traced at Balacheik Hill, in the Paung township, which is on the eastern side of the Gulf of iVJartaban, about eighty miles from Rangoon as the crow flies, and between Thaton and Moulmein. The Return from Ottawa THE Prime Minister, Cabinet colleagues, and many Parliamentary friends were on the platform at Waterloo on August 26 to welcome Mr. Baldwin and his colleagues on their return from Ottawa. Mr. MacDonald was accompanied by Sir John Simon, the Foreign Secretary. Both had flown in separate machines from Lossiemouth. The Marquess of Londonderry, the Air Minister, had travelled by air from Ireland to meet the party, but he was unable to be present at Waterloo. He was repre sented by his private secretary, Mr. I. V. Campbell. Further Light on the Death of H. G. Watkins ON Wednesday, August 24, the Danish Government received a message from the British Arctic Air Route Expedition at Angmagssalik, Greenland, saying that Mr. H. G. Watkins had been drowned on the previous Saturday (August 20). Later information stated that " Watkins went out alone in a canoe on Saturday. The motor-boat of the expedition on the same date undertook mapping work. In the afternoon the motor-boat found Watkins's canoe drifting down along the coast full of water. Near it his breeches were found on a drifting ice floe. The expedition and Greenlanders immediately undertook a search, which lasted until midnight and was continued the whole of the next day, without result." One theory is that Mr. Watkins left his kayak, or Eskimo canoe, to shoot a seal, and that the canoe floated off the ice. He may then have discarded his heavy breeches and tried to swim after it, and been drowned in the icy water. Mr. Watkins, who was only 25 years old, was already an experienced Arctic explorer. He was educated at Lancing School and Trinity College, Cambridge. While still an undergraduate, he led the Cambridge expedition to Spitzbergen in 1927, and next year led another expedition into the interior of Labrador. He displayed such remark able qualities of leadership that he was chosen last year to lead the British Arctic Air Route Expedition to explore the possibilities of starting an air service between Europe and Canada over the Greenland Ice Cap. His fine rescue of the marooned Mr. Courtauld will be remembered. The expedition had just returned to Greenland for a second winter when this tragedy occurred. Messages of sympathy have been received from Lord Londonderry (Air Minister), from the Danish Prime Minister, and others. Lord Londonderry's message to Col. Watkins, father of Mr. Watkins, was worded as follows: — " On behalf of the Air Council I offer deepest sympathy in the death of your son as the result of the tragic acci dent in Greenland. It has brought to an early close a career which was full of promise and has deprived the country of a keen and resourceful explorer. He endea voured to find a workable Arctic air route between Great Britain and North America. I greatly deplore his loss." Flying in Greenland DR. LAUGE KOCH, the Danish explorer, landed at Akranes, 14 miles from Reykjavik, Iceland, at 9.40 p.m. on Friday, August 26, after flying from Scoresby Sound. This is the first flight on this route between Greenland and Iceland. The " Cloud " Amphibian THE Air Ministry announces that the official name of the Saunders-Roe amphibian aircraft (hitherto known as the " Saro Cloud ") is " Cloud." This name is to be used in all correspondence and reports. To South Pole and Back by Air PLANS for a non-stop flight of 3,000 miles to the South Pole and back are being worked out by Mr. Lincoln Ells worth, the American explorer. Mr. Ellsworth proposes to make his flight next July. A ship will be stationed in Ross Bay as a base, and he proposes to fly thence to the South Pole and back. Previous flights of Mr. Ellsworth include that with Amundsen from Spitzbergen, while in 1926 he flew in the airship Norge from Spitzbergen to Alaska. 832
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