SCOTT AT SINGAPORE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 83, 9 April 1931, Page 11

SCOTT AT SINGAPORE

FAST FLIGHT FROM LONDON

BOUND FOR AUSTB-ALIA

Uuited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 9tli April, 1 p.m.) SINCAPORE, Bth April. The English airman, Anderson Scolt, arrived, still a few hours ahead of Kingsford Smith's record. Scott spent the previous night at Victoria Point. He left Singapore this afternoon for Palambang. He hopes to take off from Palambang for Bima to-morrow. Palembang is in the island of Sumatra and Bima in Sumbawa Island, eastward of Java. Scott, who is flying a Gypsy Moth with a 120 h.p. engine, left London on Ist April. The difference between Scott's and Smith's time to Singapore is that Smith landed in the dark on the evening of the eighth day whiles Scott was early enough at Singapore oil his eighth day out from London to carry on to Palambang, a stage further. If Scott reaches Bima to-day, he may try a direct flight from that airport to Darwin as Hinkler did in 1928. In that case Scott will beat Smith by at least a day between London and Darwin. Hill was in an almost equally good position when ho crashed at Atamboea last year in taking off for the last leg to Darwin. The best flights to date are:"— Kingsford Smith: 10& days. Hinkler: 15* days. Oscar Garden (to Wyndham): 18 days. Amy Johnson: 19 days.