FLYING TO AUSTRALIA.
PROGRESS OF CAPTAIN MATTHEWS. RAPID NON-STOP FLIGHT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Jan. 27, 3.10 p.m. Sydney, Jan. 27. Captain C. G. Matthews cables from Bagdad, dated the 24th inst., that he flew from Constantinople to Aleppo on the 14th inst., without a stop, in three hours at 10,000 feet, two hundred miles being over the mountains and ravines of Asia Minor. A week of rain followed. At Aleppo there were no hangars and no Britishers.
He made the journey from Aleppo to Bagdad on the 21st inst in four hours, meeting the first fine flying; weather. He was to overhaul his machine there, with every assistance from the R.A.F.
He is leaving on the 2"th inst. by the usual route to India. The average speed to date was 104 miles an hour. His aeroplane proved a wonderful machine in bad weather. The message added the crew were "O.K."—Aus.-jn.Z. Cable Assn.
[Captain Matthews was the first British aviator to set out for Australia, having left London on October 21st last year.]
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1920, Page 5
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174FLYING TO AUSTRALIA. Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1920, Page 5
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