WAGER LOST.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 25 May 1927, Page 7

WAGER LOST.

SECRET DISCLOSED.

• Solo Flight From England to Australia.

"FREE AND EASY" ASPIRANT.

Bj Cable.— Press Association.—Coaynsttu

• Received in a.m. i LONDON*. May H. A pilot named Rook has commenced a flight to Australia, makin? the first stop at Paris. Xo hint u-as previously dropped of 111= projected flight. He ju=t casually dropped in at Croydoa la=t m>ht and some time later" nonchalantly indicated that he Tras flyinz to An* tralia in a moth marked Gcbqj. Rook christened her pet name "Marjorie.-" In an interview he said: "I will leave au 10.3U iii the morning. The oniv thin.? that annoys m C is that I have lost a be: through the news leaking out. •[ watered to fly to Australia with out any publicity and hyped the world would know nothing till I tou.hed thv African <:oa-=t:. foUowin? Cobhamroute. •"The fuel t.«uk hold- 4"> gallonenough to do 6W in one hop. Ii I de\el.. ( , en-ine trouble then down 1 come and France and the {*opl« wil! tay I'm another thin;: I'-kjl. lts< !u L -k\ and skilful than Lindbergh. "But Marjorie will stPt fhrouah. It i< my riancee'a name. is in Au-traha. so I must rcauli her. "I know it is very rbky. but nothin; nothing -ionc. ['liave a feelin: lam •_»i!ig to succeed. I have iinestct the whole or" my worldly [*jssesaions u this little i:700 bus." Rooks' dcpart»i-e «a* without fu- s There were a few friends present. ineJud inr a woman whom Rook ki.-.-t?d, thei climbed into the cockpit without luyyty and with only the clothe* he was wear in?, a grey suit and a blue overcoat. Hβ says the flight ruav ocvupy three months. A spare propellor is strapped under the fuaelaje. but otherwise the machine does not differ from one uiakinan ordinary local ~