GREAT AIRMAN

Evening Star, Issue 20980, 19 December 1931, Page 15

GREAT AIRMAN

BERT HINKLER’S FUTURE MAY GO TO AMERICA Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 18. The ‘ Daily Express ’ understands that negotiations are on foot which will possibly result in Mi Hinkler’s departure for the United States, where he will be employed in American aviation. ‘ The Express ’ says: “It seems that there is no room he>e for a man who, after having given service in the Royal Naval Air Service in war time, accomplished notable world flights, and spent £IO,OOO of his own money in the course of }ns flying career, with his only reward a decoration from the Sultan of Morocco. Mr Hinkler, bought a Puss Moth for taxi work in Canada, hoping to show what a British machine could do, but with little result, so he decided to show the British flag in South America, where there was the greatest enthusiasm for British workmanship,’ while at home no one seemed to care whether the "ship,” meaning his Puss Moth, went to the moon or to the bottom of the sea. When he realised that in order to get - to England he would have either to sell his machine or fly, Mr Hinkler made careful plans for a flight from Brazil, via Africa, which was no hare-brained enterprise but designed to give him a chance of further enhancing tho fame of British aircraft.”