HINKLER'S MOVEMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 11

HINKLER'S MOVEMENTS

FLIGHTS OF "IMAGINATION

WHIMSICAL COMMENT

(Received 7th '."May, 8 a.m.)

NEW "I'OBlv, sth May.

Mr. Bert Hinkleiy tho Australian airman, who arrive*:! at Buffalo on Tuesday, at 2.30 -jym., from Toronto, and placed his 'plane in a hangar for the night, made no statement as to his future plans. ... On' Wednesday, Mr. Hinkler denied reports that he was on. route for Buenos Aires and Africa. ' [Tou see, whenever I take the 'plane off the ground, they get tho idea I muat be going somewhere. If I haven't decided where I'm going, they decade it for me. I'm not in a position at this time to make any statement aboiict my plans."

' According to a Toronto message published yesterday the* secrecy enveloping plans for a flight to some unannounced destination was lifted when Hinkler took off for what -was planned to be a flight across the Atlantic Ocean to Africa, "with intermediate stops. Mystery still shrouds :Hinlder's plans, said ,-the report, the oaly available details rbeing from airpoTfc workers. It was jsaid that he intenicled to make Ms first jstop at North. .Beach, Long Island. IFrom there, it is believed, ho will proiceed to Mexico ami Buenos Aires and Africa. Airport workers said that ho intended, if siicc/ossful, to attempt pcrfhaps another flijght to Australia.