ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA
PROJECTED FLIGHT BY HINKLER
START TO: BE MADE : :.IN?A' FEW
DAYS,
(Received May 29, 9.40 p.m.) LONDON, May 28. Hinkler will make an unaccompanied flight to Australia. He expects to start in a few days, otherwise the monsoons will cause a postponement for three months. His preparations ' are completed, and he awaits the Aero Club's appointment of an official starter at; thellotinslbw Aerodrome, ''aiid'' also an examiner at Singapore, where hi® machine 'will be checked. The machine carries 57£ gallons of petrol, sufficient for ten hours' cruising at n speed of ninety miles an hour.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10293, 30 May 1919, Page 5
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98ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10293, 30 May 1919, Page 5
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