FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2061, 29 November 1919, Page 2

FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

London, Nov. 25. .Could ’ made a forced landing half-way between Karachi and Bombay, owing to engine trouble. Poulel is 2‘t years of age, and is making the flight because his best friend, Vedrines, before Ids death, had completed detailed plans to lly to Australia. His machine is a twinengine Camlron G 4 biplane, with a speed of about one hundred miles an hour. His route is via Paris, Geneva, Rome, Salonika, Constantinople, Adana, Bagdad, Bushin, Karachi, Bombay, Ngapur, Calcutta, Prome, Bangkok, Bigor, Singapore, Batavia, Samarang, Boelelang, isletchindana, Kocpang, Palmerston, Burkctown, Townsville, Rockhampton, Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney, Goulburn, .Melbourne, Adelaide,

It is Punka's intention to remain in Australia lor about a month, and then return to France via Chirm and Japan. He does not intend to change engines during'- (he outward or return (lights, and considers Unit he has good chances of success, because rotary engines are most suitable for tropical Hying. Poulel’s mechanic: is Benoit, who was mechanic to the famous French airmen Garros and Gilbert. The most difficult part of the flight will be 238 miles over the sea between Timor and Australia. London, Novemb. 26. Captain Wilkins, in the Blackburn “Kangaroo,” landed at 1 Lyons on Tuesday. The weather was had.