SOLO IN PUSS MOTH
AMY JOHNSON'S INSTRUCTOR
FIRST AWAY IN RACE
British Official Wireless. (Beceived 17th September, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, 10th September. Captain Matthows, instructor at the London Aero Club, at dawn to-day left Croydon on a solo flight to Australia in an attempt to lower Bert Hiukler's 15J days record for the journey. Four, other British airmen are preparing to j attack Hinkler's record shortly. j Captain Matthews, who taught Miss! Amy Johnson, and has himself eight years' flying experience, is using a new Puss Moth single-seater cabin machine of standard type, equipped with extra tankage, enabling him to carry 100 gallons. He hopes thus to be able to make longer hops of from 1500 to 2000 miles than was possiblo when Hinkler flew in an Avian machine of an earlier pattern. Matthews is carrying a rifle with him in ease of emergency, but he is without goggles, helmet, or other flying kit. He hopes to reach Sofia nonstop to-day, and to continue via Aleppo, Baghdad, Bunder Abbas, Jodhpur, Calcutta, Bangkok, and Einbong to Port Darwin.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 68, 17 September 1930, Page 11
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177SOLO IN PUSS MOTH Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 68, 17 September 1930, Page 11
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