HOMEWARD FLIGHT
BETTER THAN OUTWARD SCOTT S IDEA OF DOUBLE ' RECORD LONDON, 6th June. Dazed, drawn, and haggard, suffering badly from cramp and deafness, and his face blistered by the hoat of the engine, Flight-Lieutenant Scott climbed down from the cockpit of his aeroplane at Lyrnpno aftor making a record-breaking flight from Australia to England in under 11 days. He admitted he was glad it was all over, and paid: "It is too far." Ho considered his homeward flight the better effort owing to tho breaking of the monsoon. Ho beat Kingsford Smith's record by 48 hours. Flight-Lieutenant Scott accomplished the whole flight in the face of very difficult conditions, and lie crossed the Channel in a storm. His time for the return journey was under 11 days, ;is against Kingsford Smith's record of 12 days 21-} hours, made in July, 1929. j Scott accomplished the outward journey in the record time of 9 days 3 hours 40 minutes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 133, 8 June 1931, Page 9
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