FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.
NEW EFFORT BY POULET. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Feb. 2, 7.20 p.m. Paris, Feb. 2. Poulet, -who returned to France owing to his machine being irreparable, leaves Marseilles on Monday for Rangoon, where a new machine awaits him. Poulet states that if his original machine had been specially built for a flight to Australia he would have beaten Captain Sir Ross Smith. He now hopes to be in Australia in a few weeks. He and his mechanic had a strange reception in Burma, where the natives thought they were messengers from Buddha. They entered a pagoda one day, and the. natives loaded them with flowers. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 February 1920, Page 5
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111FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA. Taranaki Daily News, 3 February 1920, Page 5
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