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1326 FLIGHT. DECEMBER 13, 1934. THE FOUR WINDS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUARTERS VICEREGAL : The Star of India, an Avro 642 (four " Lynx IVc ") for the Viceroy of India. It travels over600 miles at 130 m.p.h., with six passengers and four crew. The seating and interior decoration are particu- larly luxurious. The twin-engined Avro 642 was described in "Flight " for April 5. Flight Photo.) Mrs. Bruce to Try Again Mrs. Bruce's Autogiro, which wasdamaged in France during her attempt to fly to the Cape, arrived in Englandlast Saturday for repairs. Mrs. Bruce stated that she hoped to start on a secondattempt next week. 'Wiley Post Claims a Record The American airman, Wiley Post, hasbeen busy attempting to beat the world's altitude record of 47,590ft. (held by theItalian Renato Donati) in his Lockheed " Vega," Winnie Mac. On December^ hemade a two-hour flight from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, landing at Muskogee, ninetymiles away. He believed he improved upon the record, but on another flightfrom Bartlesville on December 7 he claims to have reached an altitude of50,000ft. Avro 642 for Lord Willingdon When Lady Willingdon was at theS.B.A.C display at Hendon on July 2 it was decided that a four-engined ver-sion of the Avro 642 should be built for the personal use of the Viceroy of India,Lord Willingdon. In the intervening five months this machine has been built,and we were afforded an opportunity of flying in it and inspecting it at Croydonlast Sunday, prior to its departure for India, piloted by Mr. Neville Vincent,on Tuesday. Mr. Vincent is manager of the Air Mail Services operated in Indiaby the firm of Tata's Sons, Ltd. The route he is following is London, Paris,Marseilles, Rome, Brindisi, Athens, Cairo, and thence by the normal route throughBaghdad to India. Accompanying him will be Fit. Lt. J. C. Johnson, who hasbeen appointed aide-de-camp to the Viceroy. R.A,F. Royal Wedding Qift A pair of Queen Anne walnut chests and a pair of mahogany hall seats, sub- scribed for by all ranks of the Roya'i Air Force, have been presented as a wedding gift to H.R.H. The Duke of Kent. High Flying in Italy Several members of the high altitudesection of the Italian Air Force have been making experimental altitude flights fromMontecelio aerodrome recently. Three ;laim to have reached heights of 35,000ft. A Hackneyed Offence Mr. Laurence Lipton has just been fined for " unlawfully landing an aero- plane on Hackney Marshes." If we re- member rightly, it was in 1909 that the police were somewhat perturbed over the activities of a certain A. V. Roe on Lea Marshes Has the P.C. changed his beat? Twenty'five Years Ago From " Flight " 0/ December 11, 1909. " Aeroplane Ferries.—Finding his patience tried to the utmost by the intermittent service of steamers between Sicily and Italy, Chevalier Florio, it is reported, is determined to see whether he cannot render himself independent of them. To that end he has ordered a Voisin biplane, and has sent one of his chauffeurs to the works in Paris to be taught how to manipulate it, in view of the proposal to use the flyer for trans- porting Chevalier Florio across the Straits of Messina." Caproni Fighters for Peru Twelve Caproni 114 fighters of thetype illustrated in Flight of August 14 this year are being built for the Peru iu?.nGovernment. Bristol "Mercury" «n- gines are fitted, giving a climb to 19,700feet in 8 min. 30 sec. An AW'Tninded Farm-hand Clarence Buckenberg, a farm-hand, olSioux Falls, S. Dakota, has not only built a small high-wing monoplane (fittedwith a V.8 air-cooled automobile engine), but has learnt to fly it, and uses it to takthim to his daiiy work. Foreign Aircraft in China According to a report in a Shanghaipaper, two hundred aeroplanes have been ' imported into China from abroad sincelast August. Of these no were pur- chased in the U.S.A., forty in France,and fifty in Italy. Included in the latter order were twenty bombers, ten fighters,ten reconnaissance and ten training machines. The Pacific Flight - At the time of writing it is feared that Mr. C. T. P. Ulm and his companions, Mr. G. M. Littlejohn and Mr. J. L. Skill- ing, who left Oakland, California, on December 3 to fly to Australia, are lost beyond hope. On the next day wireless messages were received saying that thev were coming down in the sea off Honolulu owing to lack of petrol, and asking for help. In spite of a thorough seven days' search by U.S. Navy vessels and aircraft, no sign of the airmen or the machine could be found. There is, of course, a chance that they have been picked up by some small fishing vessel not equipped with wireless.
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