GREAT SOLO FLIGHT
GROWING INTEREST IN ENGLAND HINKLER’S MANY RECORDS British Wireless—Press Assn.—Copyright Reed. 12.30 p.m. RUGBY, Tuesday. Growing interest is being displayed in the progress of the Australian airman, Mr. Bert Hinkler, as he approaches the objective of his great solo flight from Croydon to Australia. People in London who are acquained with his ’plane anticipate that h© will attempt the long hop of 3,000 miles from the eastern extremity of Java to Tijfrior to-morrow, and if this is successfully accomplished there will remain only the final stage of 600 miles to Port Darwin.
This section is perilous. Normal difficulties are liable to be increased by foul weather, for the rainy season now prevails. if Australia is reached by Thursday the whole journey will have been accomplished in 17 days. Hinkler has already established several records on this flight, and newspapers pay high tribute to his skill in linking Java with London in less than 14 days. A mail steamer takes 33 days for the journey. Hinkler reports from Batavia that on the first part of his flight from London he encountered many difficulties. Afterwards until he was between Singapore and Batavia, where he met much fog and rain, the trip was without incident.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 285, 22 February 1928, Page 9
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