H.M.S. SUSSEX, carrying the Dufce of Gloucester, entering Fremantle Harbour at daylight last Thursday.
It Was only by the breaking °fj^ e night-flying record in Australia that these pictures of the Dul(e of Gloucester's landing in West Australia can be published in Auckland to-day. Mr. Dan Collins, a Sydney pilot, left Perth in the Miss Southern Cross last Thursday at 6 p.m. and arrived in Melbourne at 11 a.m. on Friday. He flew from Perth to Adelaide, a distance of 1900 miles, in seventeen hours non-stop, thus making a record for night flying in Australia. After arriving at Melbourne he took off a few minutes later for Sydney.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 240, 10 October 1934, Page 5
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108H.M.S. SUSSEX, carrying the Dufce of Gloucester, entering Fremantle Harbour at daylight last Thursday. It Was only by the breaking °fj^e night-flying record in Australia that these pictures of the Dul(e of Gloucester's landing in West Australia can be published in Auckland to-day. Mr. Dan Collins, a Sydney pilot, left Perth in the Miss Southern Cross last Thursday at 6 p.m. and arrived in Melbourne at 11 a.m. on Friday. He flew from Perth to Adelaide, a distance of 1900 miles, in seventeen hours non-stop, thus making a record for night flying in Australia. After arriving at Melbourne he took off a few minutes later for Sydney. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 240, 10 October 1934, Page 5
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