NOVEL FLIGHT.
Swiss Brothers En Route to
Australia.
TRAVELLING- MUSICIAN. (Eeceived 10 a.m.) LONDON, May 27. The most novel flight to Australia yet undertaken was commenced on May 20. A 19-year-old Swiss, Alfons Breitenbach, who secured a pilot's certificate when 10, and his brother, Carl, left Zurich in a monoplane. Alfons is an accomplished organist and will give recitals in the capital cities in Australia. He intends making the Timor Sea crossing alone and sending his brother by steamer in order to allow the machine to carry the maximum amount of petrol. They were last reported at Constantinople.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 125, 28 May 1932, Page 9
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