A DARING FLYER.
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BERT HINKLER'S AVIOCIRRUS.
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Received Saturday, 5.5 p.in. LONDON, March 19. Something as near a silver flying fish as could be imagined best describes the little aviocirrus biplane in which Bert Hinkler shortly sets out on one of the most daring I flights ever undertaken to Australia. The machine, fresh from the hands of assemblers and painters, [ arrived at Croydon late in the afternoon after flying 75 miles from Southampton in barely forty-five ininutes. It is exactly in the shape i of a fish, is composed of glistening duralumin, and shines like a mirror j in the setting sun. It is the latest j effort to create a model within ; reach oLthe average man. Hinkler will attenlpt to fly to Australia unaceompanied. He will be his own mechanic and navigator. He will make further seyere tests of the machine next week and then j final preparations for an early de- : parture, ' ' '
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North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 21 March 1927, Page 7
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157A DARING FLYER. North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 21 March 1927, Page 7
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