RECORD FLIGHT PLANKED.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20545, 13 May 1932, Page 15

RECORD FLIGHT PLANKED.

CAPTAIN NEVILLE STACK. LONDON TO AUSTRALIA IN FOUR DAYS. LONDON, May 5. "To Australia in four days'? is the plan being worked out by Captain Neville Stack, who has taken part in many great long-distance flights. His idea is to beat existing records by such a margin that America's threatened challenge to British airmen will be futile. Captain Stack, who is at- present completing his arrangements, will use a 'two-seater machine capable of covering 200 miles an hour, or about 2500 miles in a day. His other plans include a journey to India and back to England in the cburse of a week-end, and to the Cape in three days.

[After a series of brilliant flights in Europe, Captain Stack, with Mr Chaplin, started on a flight to Australia, just twelve months ago, hoping to break the record. They turned back and started again, buj were again forced to return. The "try-out" flights had included one to Warsaw and back in one day They also flew from Lympne to Constantinople in the record time of 12 hours 35 minutes. Previously they had flown to Berlin and back in a day and 1 to Copenhagen and back in a day.}