SURPRISE ARRIVAL
AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND
RECORD TIME BROKEN
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, September 28,
The surprise arrival at Croydon Aerodrome at 7 a.m. today of tho do Ilavilland Puss Moth aeroplane, piloted by the 21-year-old airman James Melroso, of Glenelg, Soutli Australia,~marks the establishment of a new unofficial record for the Australia to England flight.
Melrose loft Port Darwin at 0.30 a.m. on September 20, and thus completed the journey in 8 days 9 hours. The official record for this flight is held by J. A. Mollison, who, in 1931, took 8 days 22 hours. Melroso has come. to England primarily to compete in next month's England to Melbourne air race, and it was not until ho had left Allahabad ahead of schedule that he decided to attempt to lower Mollison's record.
Melroso left Lyons on tho final stago at 2 o'clock this morning after a brief rest which he sorely needed, but, after enjoying a good breakfast at Croydon, he was sufficiently refreshed to go up in tho new Fokkcr four-engined airliner designed for the AmsterdamBatavia route which, was giving demonstration flights at Croydon piloted by Ilerr Fokkor.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1934, Page 9
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SURPRISE ARRIVAL
Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1934, Page 9
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