Effort Fails

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 72, 27 April 1929, Page 5

Effort Fails

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

Australian Press Association-United Service

NON-STOP FLYING RECORD Englishmen Fall Short Of Tlieir Goal 336 MILES TOO LITTLE

(Eeceived This Day. Noon.) LONDON, April 26. The non-stop aeroplane landed at Karachi after being aloft 50 hours 48 minutes. It eovercd 4130 miles, which is 336 short of the Italian reqord. Tlie Air Ministry states that Squad-ron-Leader Jones Williams and FlightLieut. Jenkins had apparently flown on past Karachi but returned owing to the approaeh of darkness and the presumed shoi'tage of petrol. The first non-stop flight to India lias tlius been successfully accomplished, and the previous British long distance record has been beaten. This was the flight by Lieut. Carr in 1927, when he eovercd 3419 miles nonstop before coming down in the Persian Gulf. Tlie route distauce from C'ranwell to Karachi is 4130 miles, which was flown in 50 hours 38 minutes including _a period of nearly two hours occupied in flying 011 past Karachi. No report has yet been received from Lie pilots, but a head wind appears to have been encountered after leaving Bagbdad. For the first stage 2600 miles was covered in 27 hours, while the stage of 1530 miles from Baghdad to Karachi took 22 hours.