GALLANT AUCKLANDER

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3996, 10 April 1933, Page 5

GALLANT AUCKLANDER

Flight to Australia MISS JEAN' BATTEN MAKES A GOOD START FROM ENGLISH AERODROME AMBITTOrS PLANS EASTER THAN AMY JOHNSON 1000 MILES A DAY .TVILL FLY AT NIGHT Sy Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (AiLst. and N.Z. Cable.) (Received April TO, 0.15 a.m.) nointon, April 9 Tho young New Zealander M iss Jean Batten 22, oi Auckland left tlie Lympne aerodrome on a. flight to Ausu alia. ii if mother and a few members of the Loudon Flying School aval died her make a perfect start. She expects to reach Rom© this eecurhig and thereafter will fly 1000 miles daily, even beating Amy .do!lason's ime. She may fly at night if conditions prove favourableSECRET PR Kl'.A RATION London, April 8 Mi g Batten is flying a Gipsy Moth that was formerly the property of the Prince c.t Wales, which she now partly owns. ishe says she is inot cur to break records, and hopes to arrive m a fortnight. She spent mouths on secret preparations and is confident that she will win through She will not fly from Australia to New Zealand Tie aeroplane is fitted with long range tanks and has a (mixing speed, of 100 miles am hour and can remain in the air for fourteen hours. Miss Batten, who arrived in England in >929, lias now flown 130 hours, anl is one of the few women posse using a license enabling them to undertake commercial flying. She hopes to engage in air taxi work in New n I