AUSTRALIAN FLIGHT.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18397, 2 June 1925, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN FLIGHT.

CONDITIONS BETTER THAN EXPECTED. (BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COITTRIOUT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND Jf.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATIOS.) PERTH, Juno 1. Major de Pinedo, chief of the .Italian Air Force, who left Rome on April 24th, landed at Broome at one o'clock yesterday afternoon, having left Koepang, Timor, at seven o'clock in tho morning. He thus covered 570 miles in six hours. Major de Pinedo said that over tho first stage from Brindisi to Alexandria tho conditions were good, but from there to Bagdad the air was bumpy. The machine behaved wonderfully throughout.

From |jagdad to Karachi he had an uncomfortable journey, and from Bombay to Calcutta, having to keep at a height of 9000 feet. Rangoon to Penang was the worst stretoh. It rained continually, and was always cloudy. . He had to fly very low for seven hours.

The conditions during the flight from Koepang to Broome were the best he had experienced on the trip. The object of the flight was purely sporting. Altogether the conditions had been better than he had expected. He will overhaul the machine at Melbourne, and then proceed to Japan and back to Italy, via Northern India. The aeroplane is an ordinary Italian service machine and carries a mechanic* Later. Major de Pinedo has left Broome for Onslow, en route to Perth.