MISS BATTEN'S FLIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 88, 11 October 1937, Page 10

MISS BATTEN'S FLIGHT

NO CHANGE IN ROUT]

STARTING TIME NOT YET

DECIDED

(Received October 11, 1 p.m.)

SYDNEY, This Day.

The New Zealand aviatrix, Miss Jes Batten, who is to make an attempt c the solo record, from Australia to En land, has not yet decided when si will leave.

Her route will be the same as on hi record-breaking flight from England Australia a year ago. Leaving Darwi she will fly to Koepang, Batavi Akyab, Calcutta. Allahabad, Karacl Bagdad, Cyprus, Rome, and Ldndon.

If she succeeds in beating Mr. H. Broadbent's record of 6 days Bhr 56m she will be the first to hold the so record in both directions at the san time.

MISS BATTEN'S PLAN]

OVERHAUL IN SYDNEY

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

SYDNEY, September 3(

Miss Jean Batten's famous Perciv Gull aeroplane, in which she made record flight from England to Sydn< and then crossed the Tasman, has be; I thoroughly overhauled in a workshc at the Mascot aerodrome. : She h flown it for a long petrol consumptic test, and expects that, with ext: tanks stored behind the pilot's sei the machine will have a range of 21' miles. :

The reason for all these preparatio; has been kept secret. Those concernt in the overhaul were non-committal "just a routine job," they told i quirers. Miss Batten herself, has i fused to say anything about her plar But it is common gossip around tl hangars at Mascot that she will siioi ly attempt a record-breaking fligl presumably from Australia to En land.

The Tasmanian Aero Club has d cided to renew an invitation to Mi Batten to attempt to break the Sydne Launceston air record of five houi created by the late J. C. Melrose December, 1934.