LONG SOLO FLIGHT

Evening Star, Issue 19796, 21 February 1928, Page 6

LONG SOLO FLIGHT

OAfTMX HINKLER'S RECORD

ONLY A LIGHT MACHINE

Press Association—By , Wireless —Copyright (British Official News.)

RUGBY, February 20. (Received February 21, at noon.) Arriving at Singapore yesterdayonly thirteen days alter leaving London—Captain Hinkler lias m'a for British aviation a remarkable new world’s record. Captain Hinkler has kept to his programme of long hops with absolute regularity, and by covering over 8,000 miles he has accomplished the longest solo flight ever made in any machine, and has made the London-Singapore journey in the quickest time on record. This he has done with a light British Avro Avian aeroplane with a Cirrus engine of only twenty-eight horse-power. He has encountered mixed weather during the flight, and has passed from extreme cold during the earlier part of the journey to tropical heat, which made the wings of the machine too hot to touch. In flying from Victoria Point, Burma, to Singapore yesterday (a distance of nearly 900 miles) me met violent rain storms. He was due to leave for Batavia at dawn to-day, and hopes to reach Port Darwin on Wednesday, in which event he will have fulfilled his original intention of flying to Australia in eighteen days with a safe margin. He hopes to continue his flight to his home at Bundaberg Queensland. His little machine costs about 2]d a mile to fly.