AROUND AUSTRALIA

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 9

AROUND AUSTRALIA

ATTEMPT ON RECORD

A SEVEN-DAYS' TRIP

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 12th December.

A spectacular air dash round Australia in seven days is to be undertaken shortly by Flying Officer J. A. Mollison, of one of the airway services, and Mr. W. Pendle, an enthusiastic pravite owner-pilot. Although little has so far appeared ia the Sydney Press about the flight, careful preparations have been made for an attack on the record for the flight round Australia now held by SquadronLeader Kingsford Smith and FlightLieutenant Ulm. They did the journey, in 1927, in ten days in a Bristol 'plane. Pilot Mollison and Mr. Pendle frill attempt the record in the latter's Gipsy Moth. Much of the flying will be done at night; but, if possible all landings will be mado in daylight. The proposal is to hop off from Adelaide at j 3 E-a., to land at Melbourne and at I Sydney to refuel, and to reach Bris- ! bane the same day. It will take quite j a sot of doing, but, after all, none but | "is brave and the daring deserve the : air and its triumphs. The next stage , has not yet been decided, but the flyers, it is Dslicvec. hope to cross Queensland in one stsge. The route followed will te approximately that taken by tee Hon. Csptain Hugh Grosvenor, the dashing yonag heir to a sporting British peer, and AJO.C. to the Governor of South Australia, in his round-Aus-tralia flight early this year.

It is hoped to make Perth to Adelaide, tie last stage, also in one day. If the fliers succeed, they will break most of the records for round-Australia flying. They believe there is a sporting chance of success. Captain Grosvenor, by the way, is proposing a Te-cord-making dash from Australia "to England. He, too, will have his work cut out to eclipse the record by Smith and TJlm in that sphere in the Southern Cross. ■■'■•-