AUSTRALIAN FLIGHT.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19148, 3 November 1927, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN FLIGHT.

CAPTAIN LANCASTER'S VENTURE. (BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPI'RIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND SZ. CABLS ASSOCIATION.) BAGDAD, November 1. Captain Lancaster and Mrs Keith Miller, who are flying to Australia, taking Sir Alan Cobham's route, left Ziza, but a high wind, causing a sandstorm, compelled them to alight at Putba, a desert post of the Royal Air Force provided with a big Vickers "Vernon" bombing 'plane. It is hoped, if the weather rlears, that the 250 miles trans-desert flight to Bagdad will not present any difficulties on Wednesday.

ATTEMPT TO BREAK RECORD. (AUSTRALIAN AXD N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, November 1. Lieutenant Bert Hinckler and Captain Mcintosh will start on Tuesday or Wednesday, when there is a full moon. For two nights they will be in the air, and will follow Lieutenant Carr's route across Europe to Constantinople, Bagdad, and Karachi, and continue until the 740 gallons of petrol are exhausted. It should last 40 or 50 hours and be sufficient for 4000 to 4500 miles. Thus they will be able to- beat Mr Clarence Chamberlain's and Mr Charles Levine's 3905 miles record. It will be interesting if a privatelyfinanced scheme is successful in winning the most important international air record for Great Britain? Lieutenant Hinckler is now at Bristol making final tests with his Jupiter machine. [Lieutenant Hinckler is an Australian. He has made some remarkable flights, the first of note being under London Bridge, then to Rome ill one day in a Moth machine. Ha has also taken part in the all round England contests. Hinckler did a good deal of flying in Australia also. His parents live in Melbourne.] \ -■» ,1 II 111!