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STILL MEET DIFFICULTIES FLYING TO AUSTRALIA KAYE AND PIPER’S MISHAP By Telegraph-Press AsSn-Copyrlght (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received March 21, 9.30 a.m.) Singapore, March 20. Because the New Zealand airmen, Limits. Piper and Kay<3, landed on the Air Force ground adjoining the naval base 18 miles from Singapore town, few people, were aware ol their arrival on Wednesday evening or of their departure this morning for Muntok. Piper and Kaye’s had luck encountered in India continued after leaving Calcutta. Off Burma’s coast engine trouble' forced a descent on a small uninhabited island named Boronoo, near Akyoh where tliev were delayed ior three weeks working oni repairs all day in the tropic sun and sleeping during the. nights in the machine, as there was no slid l or.
Despite these adversities, they were most optimistic, though tired out, when they arrived in Singapore.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2507, 21 March 1930, Page 5
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