FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA
4 —... HINKLER REACHES ROME
(Rec. February 8, 8.10 p.m.)
Rome, February 7. Hinkler arrived at 8.30 to-night, after flying three hours in darkness. — A.P.A. 'and “Sun.”
TRIBUTE TO AIRMAN’S QUALITIES (Rec. February 8, 9.30 p.m.)
London, February 8. The “Daily Telegraph,” describing Hinkler as the most modest of aviators, expresses the hope that he will be successful in his ambitious venture, “for the task he has set himself demands precisely the qualities we most need in pioneers of modern aviation a total absence of that foolhardiness which, unfortunately, was so marked a characteristic of too many of last year’s transatlantic fliers, and an abundance of patience and fortitude, without which no modern airman can lay claim to greatness?’
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 112, 9 February 1928, Page 11
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121FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 112, 9 February 1928, Page 11
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