• * * * Flying Round the World The Royal
Air Force display at Hendon last Saturday astonished a vast multitude by the skill and daring of the airmen flying new types of machines. The programme was executed without a mishap. The week has been notable for long-distance flights. The Atlantic has been twice' crossed, from west to east ; first by Mr. Post, an American, and Mr. Catty, an Australian, and secondly by two Danish officers, Captain Hoejriis and Lieutenant Hillig. Messrs. Post and Gatty left New York early on June 23rd, landed near. Chester on June 24th and then after a brief stop flew on to Berlin. This proved to be only the first stage in an attempt to put a girdle round the earth—in nine days. They reached Moscow on June 25th, and Blagovestchensk—where their machine was bogged— on June 27th. Crossing the Northern Pacific, they landed in Alaska early on Tuesday, June 30th. In the afternoon they set out for the Rockies and Edmonton, Alberta which they reached on their eighth day. Two Japanese are racing round the world, mostly by air lines, one with and one against the sun. They met at Croydon and "spoke one another in passing."
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