AFTER THE RECORD

Evening Star, Issue 20864, 6 August 1931, Page 9

AFTER THE RECORD

MR MOLLISON’S FLIGHT INTEREST IN ENGLAND (British Official Wireless.) Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, August 4. Considerable interest has been aroused by the attempt to break Mr C. A. Scott’s record of lOd 23b for the Australia to England flight upon which the Australian pilot Mr J. A. Mollison is engaged. He left Wyndham on'July 29 flying a Do Haviland Moth with a Gipsy engine. Reports of his progress encourage the hopes expressed in tonight’s papers that ho will succeed in keeping to schedule, and will complete the flight to-morrow in a final hop from Athens to Croydon, boating the previous record by a day and a-balf. ARRIVAL AT ATHENS ATHENS, August 5. > (Received August 6, at 10 a.m.) Mollison arrived at 8.30 this morning, and after the briefest rest resumed his flight to London at 11.30. ANOTHER STAGE CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS. ROME, August 3. (Received August 6, at 10.30 a.m.) Mollison arrived hero aud leaves for London at 11 o’clock to-night. Bad weather forced the airman to return to Aleppo. He started again after midnight, and arrived at Athens in excellent spirits. He said that, barring mishaps, he was confident of knocking a day and a-half off Scotty record.