HONEYMOON TOUR BY AIR
♦ < FLIGHT FROM LONDON TO, AUSTRALIA I.I'HESS ASSOCIATION lELEG..AM-) AUCKLAND, October 1^ The Sydney aviator, Mr D. Colins, who broke two records whebringing news and photographs c the Duke of Gloucester's arrive from Perth to Sydney, is a passer ger on the Aorangi with his w£ and also Mr and Mrs D. S. WiK He will buy an aeroplane in L° f don and fly in easy stages to AusW lia as a honeymoon tour for (i latter pair. Mr Collins said he left Perth; 4 p.m. on the dav of the Duke's a;' rival in Sir Charles Kingston Smith's Percival Gull machine, If; ing all night and reaching Adela' c a'.; 5 a.m. He breakfasted while »; aeroplane was refuelled, a ;;; reached Melbourne at 11 a.m.. a! : then went on to Sydney, taking F over 23 hours for the whole ney. , ; "We went all night. There only one anxious time on tu £. w l to Adelaide, when a complete bl»» out for two hours, with the s% obscured and mist, made me on blind-flying instruments. H; e ever, when day dawned we *j, e over Spencer's Gulf, right on course." 0 .,- One record was the longest • stop night flight, and the other• . fastest light aeroplane flight ' ; Perth to Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21296, 16 October 1934, Page 12
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