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Other Britons, Captain Leslie Hamilton and Lieutenant-Colonel F. F. Minchin, planned to fly within the fortnight from London to Ottawa, Ont., or as far into Canada as their fuel lasts. Canadian pilots last week hurried to London, Ont., hoping to be chosen for a proposed London-to-London flight.
Belgians. In August or September, Flight Lieutenants George Medaets, pilot, and Jean Verhaegen, navigator, of Belgium will, they said last week, fly without stopping from Brussels to Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo (4,000 miles).
Richard Grace, cinema stuntman, last week took off from Barking Sands, Hawaii, after punctured tires had stopped his first two attempts to fly a Ryan monoplane like Colonel Lindbergh's to California. He vanished from sight eastward over the Pacific, but soon returned. His rudder was out of order. Landing, one of his wings snagged in a bush, wrecked the ship. Mr. Grace sailed by steamer for California, where his backers said they would rebuild his plane for a fourth attempt.
Ben Eielson, flyer for hundreds of hours in Alaska, comrade of Explorer George Hubert Wilkins in his efforts to find unmapped land in the Polar Sea, sent his name in as a candidate for a $25,000 prize offered by Seattle, Wash., for a non-stop flight from there to Tokyo.
Ernest L. Smith, whose broken windshield forced him back to San Francisco last fortnight when he hopped for Hawaii behind Lieuts. Maitland and Hegenberger, was ready for another try.
At Dallas, Tex., 25 entries were already in for a $25,000 prize offered by W. E. Easterwood Jr. for the first flight from Dallas to Hongkong.
Brazilian. Scarcely noticed by the Northern Hemisphere, Commander Joas de Barros of Brazil, having successfully crossed the Atlantic from Europe, last week hopped triumphantly down the Brazilian coast towards Santos, his destination.
*A continent of unknown extent, perhaps as large as Australia, covers the South Pole, which was located Dec. 14, 1911, by Roald Amundsen at an elevation of 10,260 ft. above sea level.