The scenes at the commencement of the flight to Ottawa were most dramatic. Captain Hamilton and Lieutenant-Colonel Minchin had not slept ...
Article : 330 wordsThe steamer Josiah Macy wirelessed that an aeroplane, believed to be the St. Raphael, passed it at 9.44 p.m. on August 31, in latitude 53.15, longitude 29.45, in ...
Article : 46 wordsA new invention, called the "Seatlea," or an airscrew-driven water skimmer, in which a French inventor (M. De Gasenko), with a crew of three, intends ...
Article : 64 wordsLieutenant Bentley has left London for Cape Town in a Moth aeroplane equipped with extra tanks. He hopes to do the journey in 14 days. He will fly over Sir ...
Article : 78 wordsAn army aeroplane, flying low in a fog crashed and caught fire. The pilot and observer were burned to death. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe French airman, Callizo, who last week graphically described the agonies he endured in mid-air in establishing a new altitude record of ...
Article : 182 wordsLieutenant Bentley, flying in a Moth machine to Cape Town, has been held up at Le Bourget because he did not possess an Aero Club permit to facilitate aerial ...
Article : 63 wordsThe "San Francisco Chronicle" said on Saturday that Captain Kingsford Smith and Mr. C. T. Ulm, the Australians who are planning a flight from San Francisco to ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Pride of Detroit, in which Messrs. Brock and Schlee are flying round the world, has arrived here. The journey from Belgrade took six ...
Article : 92 wordsLieutenant Bentley, who is flying in a Moth machine from London to South Africa, has arrived at Lyons. ...
Article : 26 wordsLieutenant Bentley, flying a Moth aeroplane from London to South Africa, has arrived arrived here from Lyons. ...
Article : 30 wordsOwing to the non-arrival of the necessary permission to leave the Pride of Detroit has been delayed another day here, the Turks refusing to waive the usual ...
Article : 53 wordsThe monoplane Royal Windsor started for Windsor (England) to-day. The takeoff was. perfect. Duke Schiller is the pilot, and Philip Wood the navigator. ...
Article : 33 wordsLast week it was reported that M. Callizo had reached an altitude of 42,000 ft., and he gave a graphic description of agonies endured at that height. ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Royal Windsor plane was forced down, at St. John (Quebec), with a wing on fire, sustaining slight damage. The flight will be resumed in the morning. ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Pride of Detroit has left for Bagdad. ...
Article : 14 wordsMr. C. Levine announces that he proposes taking off between 5 and 6 o'clock on Tuesday morning for New York. He says:—"The weather reports are ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Pride of Detroit, in which Messrs. Block and Schlee are flying round the world from New York, left for Binder Abbas, to-day. ...
Article : 50 wordsAt midnight the Air Ministry received a message, to the effect that the aviators were going strong. All the Government wireless stations on the Atlantic coast ...
Article : 56 wordsMrs. Levine, wife of the trans-Atlantic flyer, left for home to-day by steamer. Her husband remains in London in pursuance of his intention to fly to New York. ...
Article : 43 wordsAfter its examination of Callizo, the Aero Club decided to disqualify him for life from recognition, and to erase all the records attributed to him. This action ...
Article : 68 wordsAt midnight no word had been received from the Saint Raphael, but it is estimated. she should be 400 miles cast of Newfoundland. The weather reports ...
Article : 63 wordsThe date for the departure of the Sir John Carling, which is to fly. from London (Ontario) to London (England), is not decided, as the aviators are awaiting ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Atlantic weather has not abated, and as there are 30-mile-per-hour head winds Mr. Levine's flight has been postponed. ...
Article : 116 wordsAt midnight the St. Raphael was nine hours overdue. Reports were circulated during the night that a west-bound aeroplane had been sighted near Montreal, ...
Article : 64 wordsThe British aviator, Captain Courtney, left Plymouth for America at 6.30 this morning in fine weather. The utmost secrecy was observed, and ...
Article : 327 wordsThe session of the Council of the League of Nations which opens to-morrow is likely to be the tamest held for three years, as is also the agenda for the Assembly on ...
Article : 135 wordsThe monoplane Sir John Carting, with Captain Terry Tully as pilot and Lieut, James Medcalf as navigator, hopped off for London (England) to-day, via Harbor ...
Article : 62 wordsThe absence of news of the St. Raphael at midnight caused great anxiety here regarding the safety of Captain Hamilton, Lieutenant Minchin, and the Princess of ...
Article : 336 wordsTo-day two aeroplanes collided and were telescoped in mid-air at Petit-Clamert. One, piloted by a 22-year-old flyer named ...
Article : 63 wordsMM. Givon and Corbu started from Le Bourget for New York in the biplane Bluebird at 6.32 this morning. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Bluebird, the immense Goliath aeroplane built by Farman Brothers, took off this morning for a flight from Paris to New York. It is 15 ft. high, with two ...
Article : 106 wordsIn connection with the disappearance of Mr. Paul Redfern, who set cut over a week ago on a flight from Brunswick (Georgia) to Rio di Janeiro, and who has ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Geneva correspondent of the "Daffy Telegraph" says it will be interesting in view of the resignations of Lord Cecil and M. de Jouvenel to see how far the policy ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Bluebird struck a fog and returned to Le Bourget. At 8 o'clock the plane was circling the aerodrome, using up petrol, apparently fearing to land with ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Norwegian steamer Christian, Krogh, which reached here to-day, reported sighting Mr. Paul Redfern's plane, the Port of Brunswick, on August 26 within ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the British United Press states that one hundred and fifty deaths are reported due to Galician floods. ...
Article : 139 wordsThere is good authority for believing that legislation will probably be introduced into the Dominion Parliament to discourage stunt flights in Canada, on the ...
Article : 91 wordsCaptain Courtney has wirelessed a passing vessel that he has given up the flight owing to the head winds, and is making for Corunna. ...
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Advertising : 6 wordsCaptain Courtney landed at Cape Finisterre at 7.15 p.m. yesterday owing to bad weather. He proposes to resume the flight on Monday. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe "Referee" publishes on interview with Captain Courtney, in which he said they made good progress for the first seven hours, after which the wind ...
Article : 206 wordsM. Givon, pilot of the Blue Bird, one of the machines awaiting a favorable opportunity to fly across the Atlantic, while motoring from Le Bourget yesterday, was ...
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Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), Sat 10 Sep 1927, Page 59
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