RECORDS COMPARED

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 122, 26 May 1930, Page 9

RECORDS COMPARED

MISS JOHNSON AND HINKLER

Miss Johnson is not the first, woman to fly from England to Australia, but sho is the first to make a solo flight, and sho also has the satisfaction of knowing that her timo is second only to the record of Bert Hinkler, which has stood since 1928. In the eight days that she- took to travel from Croydon to Calcutta she was two days ahead of Hinkler, but she lost timo. at Rangoon, where her machine had to be repaired, and this cost her two days. Sho Jost another..day between Rangoon and Singapore, and then came down in the village of Haliloelik, near Atamboea. Her completed time, just under 20 days, is four days behind Hinkler's feat in February two years ago.

The first woman to make the flight was Mrs. Miller, who in 1928 flow with Captain Lancaster in a Cimis-ongincd Avro-Avian after a trip which lasted five month's and proved very adven L turous. Rain, 'an injury to Mrs. Miller, and the discovery of a snake in the cockpit were among tho reasons for their delays.

Miss Johnson's record is as follows

Hinkler probably flow about' 12,000 miles in actually traversing this course, as the distances given are for straightlino flight. Hinkler broke records from the beginning, making the first non-stop flight from Croydon to Eome, flying for 13 hours, the last three hours in darkness, and landing by the light of flares. He also set up a record for the longest flight ever made in a light aeroplane,

Flight-Lieutenant Benkcy havtag held tho previous record for a flight from England to Capetown in 1027. Hinkler took fifteen flying days against Miss Johnson's sixteen flying days. Previous flights and their times arc as follow: Days. 1919—Sir Ross Smith 28 1920—Parer and Macintosh 207 1025—Marehese do Pitiedo 3o 192G—Sir Alan Cobham 30 192S—Bert Hinkler 15 192S—Capt. Lancaster and Mrs. | Miller ' 155 1928—R.A.P. Plying Boats on world cruise 227 1929 —Moir and Owen G2 1930—P. C. Chichester 37 1930—Piper and Kay ' 44

" Miles. 5th May—Croydon to Vienna .. I 800 6 th May—Constantinople ...... 850 7th May—Aleppo COO 8th May—Bagdad .,' 460 9th May—Bundar Abbas 850 10th May—Karachi 700 11th May—Allahabad 950 12th May—Calcutta 475 13th May—Inseiii (near Eangoon) 620 14th and 15th May—Delayed for repairs 16th May—Bankok 375 17th May—Singora 490 18th May—Singapore 500 19th May—Tjomal 570 20tli May—Surabaya-' 285 21st May—Delayed for reparis. 22nd M:ty—Haliloclik (near . Atamboca) S00 23rd May—Delayed at Atamboea.' 21th May—Darwin 510 .9925 Kinkier's flight consisted of tho following hops: Miles. 7th Feb. —Croydon to Eoinc .... 870 Sth Fob.—Maita 430 9th Feb.—Benghazi -100 10th and 11th Feb.—Eamloh .... 900 12th Feb.—Basra 800 13th Feb.—Jask 730 14th Feb.—Karachi 570 loth Feb.—Cawjiporo 850 16th Feb.—Calcutta 600 17th Feb.—Eangoon C20 18th Feb. —Victoria Point 500 19th Feb.—Singapore 710 20th Feb. —Bandoeng 640 21st Feb.—Bima 830 22nd Feb.—Darwin. 950 10,400