ROD CARR, OF FEILDING

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1127, 15 June 1927, Page 6

ROD CARR, OF FEILDING

ON FLIGHT TO INDIA HAS A FRENCH RIVAL. MAKING ANOTHER START. (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). Loudon, June 113. Lieuts. Carr and Mackworth tomoriWi weather permitting, start on a non-stop flight to India in a Hawker-Horsloy bomber, carrying petrol in tanks sufficient for 4500 miles.

The event seems like developing into an international fligiit, as Captain d’Oisey leaves Le Bourget tomorrow for the same destination. HOW THE DISASTER CAME. A dramatic account is now for tlio first time disclosed of how the British non-stop plane flying to India fell in the Persian Gulf practically in sight of the goal, which would nave given the world’s record to Britain. It is revealed that the plane 1 ought for the greater part of tbe distance against a wind which did not handicap the Atlantic flyers. During the night when flying across Irak the plane battled against a head wind, yet nevertheless it was then ahead of scheduled time . Lieut. Carr was controlling the machine m the darkness at a great height, while Lieut. Giflman was asleep. Owing to the intense heat Carr removed his helmet which he believed caused a slight deafness. A few minutes before the breakdown he reduced the engine’s revolutions in order to economise fuel. The engine developed an unusual note. Carr awakened Gillman and warned him ho feared the engine was failing t~em. Almost instantly it ceased. Then commenced the forced descent in the darkness over the Persian Gulf, which was skilfully executed, the machine alighting in the water perfectly.