RECORD FLIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 91, 15 October 1934, Page 8

RECORD FLIGHT

PERTH TO SYDNEY

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Tlio Sydney aviator, D. Collins, who broke two records in bringing nows and photographs of the Duke of Gloucester's arrival from Perth to* Sydney, is a passenger by the Aorangi, with his wife, and also Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Wiley. : He will buy an aeroplane in London and fly in easy stages -to Australia for a honeymoon tour for the latter pnir. Collins snid that ho left Perth at ■1 p.m. on tlio dtiy of the Duke's arrival, in Sir Charfrs Kingsford Smith's Percivil Gull machine, flying all night, and reaching- Adelaide at 5 a.m. He breakfasted, while .the aeroplane was refuelled, readied Melbourne at ill a.m., and thence proceeded to Sydney. The whole .journey occupied just over twenty-three hours. "We flew ;ill night," he sniil, "and there was only one anxious time on the way. Adelaide was a complete blaekoul. and for two hours the stars were; obscured and the mist made me rely ] on the blind-flying instruments. However, when day dawned wo were over Spencer's Gulf, right on the course." One record was that it was the longjest non-stop night flight, and the other that it was a light aeroplane flight from Perth to Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney.