CROYDON TO PARIS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 169, 13 April 1935, Page 7

CROYDON TO PARIS

Record Flight By de Havilland Comet AVERAGE OF 240 M.P.H. (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, April 11. Despite very bad weather a de Havilland Comet monoplane, piloted by Captain Buckingham, to-day Hew from Croydon to Baris, a distance of 220 miles on a straight course, in 53 minutes, beating the record by 14 minutes. Owing to the weather the pilot could not proceed at full speed, but maintained an average of 240 miles per hour. The machine Is one of the two Comets acquired by the French Government to undergo speed tests by French pilots. It was used by Messrs. Catheart Jones and Waller in their record-breaking flight of 13} days to Australia and back. MISS BATTEN’S FLIGHT Arrival at Koepang at Noon Yesterday (Received April 12, 10.30 p.im) Darwin, April 12. Miss Jean Batten left Darwin at. 6.30 a.m. local time to-day, for Koepang. and arrived there at noon. An earlier message stated that en route from Sydney to London she arrived from Camooweal after flying through thick duststorms. She intends leaving, this morning an hour before the mail aeroplane. She will thus have another machine not far behind, which will pass her before she reaches Koepang. DUTCH PLANE’S TRIP London. April 11. A Dutch passenger aeroplane averaged 222 miles an hour from Croydon to Rotterdam.