BREAKS RECORD

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 15, 12 October 1933, Page 9

BREAKS RECORD

England to Australia

KINGSFORD SMITH

Arrival at Wyndham

MARGIN OVER SCOTT

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.

(Received October 11,11.15 p.m.)

Sydney, October 11. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith landed at Wyndham at 5.15 p.m. local time, or 7.15 Sydney time. He covered the trip from England in 7 days 4 hours 49 minutes, breaking Scott’s record by 1 day 15 hours 57 minutes.

Once again Air-Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith has demonstrated that lie is the world’s greatest pilot by beating Mr. C. W. Scott’s record by such a margin. A noteworthy’ feature of the flight was that the time halves that of the late Squadron-Leader Hinkler's great flight of 1928. . This is Sir Charles’s sixth flight between England and Australia, his. previous efforts being to England m the Southern Cross: to Australia in the Southern Cross Junior; the first All-Aus-tralian Air Mail, 2-way journey, and to England in the Southern Cross Minor.

M.P.’s FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA

Specially Chartered Aeroplane

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received October 11, 7 p.m.)

Rugby, October 10.

Mr. W. P. Green, member of Parliament for Worcester, is at Lympne 'waiting to take off in a specially chartered three-engined Spartan cruiser iow-wing monoplane on the 25,000 miles flight to Australia and back,