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AMERICA TO AUSTRALIA CAPTAIN GILES'S ATTEMPT TO START ON FRIDAY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, SAN FRANCISCO, November 9. (Received November 10, at 11.5 a.m.) Captain Giles stated that the reports of stormy weather in tbe Pacific would not prevent bis hopping off for Honolulu on Friday morning. Ho said; “I. have been a hundred miles at sea in all kinds of weather during the war, and those old pusher-typo ’planes were much more dangerous than our modem ships.” Captain Giles’s biplane, the Wanda, to which repairs Mere completed yesterday, was put through a short flight test and declared satisfactory by Captain Giles. He will carry 450 gallons of petrol, with special pump valves, insuring the ’plane to float indefinitely if forced to land on the water. The army officials at Honolulu had planned to aid Captain Giles with radio beacons, until it was learned that the Wanda will not carry radio. Surprise is expressed at Captain Giles’s decision to dispense with radio.
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Evening Star, Issue 19710, 10 November 1927, Page 4
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162AVIATION Evening Star, Issue 19710, 10 November 1927, Page 4
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