A WORLD FLIGHT
AAIEBK AN JOURNALIST TO VISIT AUSTRALIA. Flying a Speed -Mail Stearnian machine called the “Flying Carpet” on a (light round the world, Air Richard Halliburton, an American journalist, accompanied by Air Aloye Stephens as his pitol, reached Calcutta on .January 1 Titli. from the Himalaya Alouataiiis, where a few days bet ore they made an unsuccessful attempt to fly over the toj> of Alt Everest. Air Halliburton, who is preparing a number of articles for a group ol American journals, has already flown through .Morocco and Tangiers and spent some time in Timbwtoo proceeding to India via Cairo ,Palestine and Bagdad. At Calcutta the machine will be fitted with Hunts, and the Shell Company Inis laid fuel and oil supplies for the continuation of the flight via Bangkok and Saigon through the Malay Peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra, from this point the pilot will follow the Island route as far as Timor, whence lie will turn hack to Sourabaya. and from there ship Die machine to Sydney and on to Tahiti. Air Halliburton wil spend some time living in Polynesia and finally return to the United States by steamer.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1932, Page 6
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191A WORLD FLIGHT Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1932, Page 6
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