ROUTE CHOSEN.
Plan For Australians' Return Flight. CAREFUL HANDLING NEEDED. (Australian and N.Z. Pres.« Association.) (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 19. Flight-Lieutenant Moir has informed the Australian Press Association ttat the route to Australia which he will follow will be via Rome, Malta, Benghazi, Cairo, Ramleh, Bagdad, Basra, Bushire, Bunder Abbas, Karachi, Agra, Calcutta, Akyab, Bangkok, Singora, Singapore, BatavLa, Sourabaya, Birna and Darwin.
Oil and petrol supplies will be laid down in the places named, but landings may not be necessary at them all. The route was chosen because the VickersVellore 'plane, which is definitely the biggest machine ever flown to Australia, will need careful handling, despite its size. Its speed is not actually fast, the cruising range being from 80 to So miles an hour, as it is built to lift and carry heavy loads. It is expected that "the 'plane will be readv for tests by the week-end.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 43, 20 February 1929, Page 7
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