Waghorn, famous winner of the Schneider trophy, and. civilian obverver named Alexander were seri feebly injured in a parachute landing at Farnborough, Hampshire, to-
Their machine, an experimental Domber, was flying at 2000" eet when it entered a spin "and, "apreel, Go eat of conte wae: Kern and his companion jumped out with parachutes, when the machine Was quite close to the ground.
The machine crashed at a. gre speed some distance away and. wai completely wrecked. "Waghorn sustained a fractured thigh and ankle and hea injuries—Wireless through Aldershot, May 7.
Squadron-Leader Waghorn died early to-day at the Cambridge Military Hospit Squadron-Leader Waghorn suc-little more than 24 hours After he. suffered serious injuries when a Hawker-Horseley two-seat Bombing plane capsized and upside down on the roof of a Farnborough, Hamp:
Injured with him was Mr. E. R. D. Alexander, a civilian tester for th Hawker Company who i from injuries to both expected to live—United Press, Constantinople to London Record London, May 4.
Captain Neville Stack and his ¢ompanion Mr. Chaplin, who have had to abandon their attempt. to snake a record flight to Australia in order to prove the feasibility. of speeding up air mail services to the Antipodes, started from Con~ stantinople this. morning and reached Heston to-night "ding the flight in the record time of 142 hours.
Tt may be recalled that on their outward journey the airmen covered the 1,660 miles from Londo' to the Turkish capital in 15 houra with a sop, of 40 minutes "at Vienna is a boat of entracrdinary size entailing constructive problems and risks which so far have hardly or} only partly been known even! theoretically and for the practical solution of which the present test-flight to America is intended Trans-Ocean Kuo al
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