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HINKLER'S ACHIEVEMENT

WARM PRESS COMMENT NEW FIELD OF AVIATION OPENED (British Official News.) PfM« Association—By Wireless—Copyright. RUGBY, February 23. (Received February 24, at 11.30 a.m.)

Mr Hinkler’s consummate skill and daring are ivarinly praised by the Press, and a tribute is paid to his modesty, which adds an additional note of triumph to his success. Discussing the practical importance of the flight, the newspapers recognise that it will raise new problems of modifications in dcsigan which will permit of such machines carrying passengers and some load. The ‘Manchester Guardian,’ while believing that the distant air travel of tho future will he by airship, and recognising that good fortune in the matter of weather favored Mr Hinkler, says that his distinction is to have brought the Might to Australia down to the level of the ordinary everyday commercial traffic. Tho ‘Daily News’ says: “It has brought perceptibly nearer the realisation of a regular system of air communication between distant parts of the world.”

The ‘Daily Telegraph’ says: “Tho reputation of tho flight by aeroplane is thoroughly established by this flight for all purposes of ordinary travel.” ‘Tlie Times ’ says: “Mr Hinkler’s exploit was concerned, not so much with the discovery of possible mechanical improvements in aeroplanes and their engines, as the proving of what can bo done with the typo of aircraft in common use, and costing in the open market only £7OO. By completing tho journey at a total running cost for fuel of about £SO ho has shown, as Flight-lieutenant Bentley showed by his journey in a Moth aeroplane to tho Capo, and Captain Neville Stack and Mr Bernard Lecte by their earlier light aeroplane flight to India, that world’s journeys by air are within the reach of men of a sporting turn of mind, without prohibitive capital expenditure, provided only that they have the necessaryqualifications as pilots. More than anything else, ho lias opened the eyes of the public to the possibility of establishing an air mail to Australia.”

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Evening Star, Issue 19799, 24 February 1928, Page 6

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HINKLER'S ACHIEVEMENT Evening Star, Issue 19799, 24 February 1928, Page 6

HINKLER'S ACHIEVEMENT Evening Star, Issue 19799, 24 February 1928, Page 6

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