London, Apr. 23.
Captain Frank Hawks, prominent JAmerican aviator, to-day broke the record for aeroplane travel between Paris and England, At 1152 o'clock this morning Captain Hawks hopped off from Lo Bourget Aerodrome, near Paris. He landed at the Heston Aerodrome, England, at 12.51 o'clock this after noon, thus breaking the previous record of 96 minutes held by Lieuten-fant Commander Glen Kidston, holder fof the record for flight between England and South Africa, When he returned to Heston Aero-la rome to-day Captain Hawks had fail. ed in his effort to fly from England to Rome and back to England in a single day. He hopped off yesterday morning and despite unfavourable weather flew to Rome, breaking the record held by Air Commodore fies Kingsford-Smith of Australia. (Captain. Hawks started the return journey but bad weather forced him down in a field 150 kilometres south of Paris. He flew to Lo Bourget this morning and after pausing there or fuel he made his record breaking dash to the Heston Acrodrome-United Press.
Race Round the World operated by Imperial Airways, left Grovdon in a nine ton Armstrong (delay air liner to-day. 'The ait finer' was. larrying combined Australian, Indian and Central African mail, totalling approximately 60,000 The mail is due at Bort Darwin on Sunday, May 10.
The first experimental service delay due toa mishap the air liner City of Cairo near Kupang, Timor, last Sunday, Her mails reached "Port Darwin to-day Hina. relief "plane piloted by Air Commodore Kingsford-Smith, The permanent establishment of an pilaud-Australia air mail will pend, "in part, upon the results Sifioved bby Base tivo" experimental lits and, tu part, upon the finan-assistance which will be forth-
Los Angeles, Cal,, Apr. 22, An aeroplane race around the world was in prospect here to-day as Mr. John "Henry Mears, the round-the-world flier, and Mr. Vance Breese, aviator and aeroplane manufacturer, hastened preparations to take off before an around-the-world flight can be started from Oklahoma Gity Sy Mfr. Wiley Post and Mr. Harold' Gatty.
Already Mr. Post, winner of the 1980 "Los "Angelescto-Chicago Air Derby, and Mr. Gatty, who was to have been Lieutenant Harold Brom-Tey's navigator last year on the attempt to fly from Japan to America which never materialized, are testing their white and orchid biplane, thy crews expect to take. off about May 1 on an attempt to fly
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