CENTENARY FLYERS
Royal Aero Club Awards 9 London. January 27. The Royal Aero Club has awarded the Britannia Trophy for 1934 and gold medals to Messrs C. W. A. Scott and Campbell Black in recognition ot their Melbourne flight, and silver medals to Cathcart Jones and Ken Waller. The International Federation has recognised Scott and Black’s time as the first international capital-to-ca-piral record. DIANA BACK AT DARWIN Darwin, January 28. The Qantas mail aeroplane Diana, disabled in landing at Point Stuart to help the Imperial Airways Athena, was flown back to Darwin by Captain G. Allen. The propeller of the Qantas aeroplane Apollo, at present at Darwin, was; taken to Point Stuart and fitted to tlie Diana. YOUNGEST PASSENGER Small Boy Has Plane to Himself London. January 16. Jacques Maus, aged three, is believed tc be the youngest passenger to travel alone by air. He had this distinction thrust upon him recently when he was the only passenger on a two-hours journey from Croydon to Brussels in the giant four-engined Imperial Airways liner Scylla. Normally it carries thirtynine passengers in addition to its crew. Jacques is the sixth of a family of eight children living at the village of Cortenberg, near Louvain. When his mother died lie was sent to stay with a relative. Mrs. Ratcliffe, of Kenley, near Croydon. Ills father decided he should return home by air to avoid the complicated travel of boat and train. Scylla’s size and the roar of its four 500 h.p. engines upset Jacques a little at first, but lie regained his courage and stepped manfully on board the air liner. He was placed in the charge of the stewards, who prepared a special breakfast of grapefruit and bread and milk for him. At the Haeren aerodrome. Brussels, the child was thrilled to meet his father again, and prattled excitedly of how the plane flew over clouds and how tiny the houses setfm’ed below.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 9
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321CENTENARY FLYERS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 9
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