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ROOKE’S PROGRESS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) DELHI, July 22. Rooke has arrived at Agra. DETROIT TO AUSTRALIA. NEW YORK, July 22. A Detroit message states that Giles gives details of his flight to Australia as follow: —Start August 11, first stop San Francisco, then competing in the Dole race, he will make for Hawaii, afterwards proceeding to Brisbane, then to Sydney and Wellington. Giles’s trip is financed by W. Rosewarne, a Detroit contractor. Giles was born in Australia. His plane the Hess Bluebird is equipped with Wright motors and storage tanks for six hundred gallons of gasolene. The longest leg of the journey, Hawaii to Brisbane, is 4809 miles, which is the farthest non-stop flight ever yet attempted. Commenting on the trip, Giles said that the main object was to promote better feeling between Australia and America. “I am also a competitor for James Dole’s twenty-five thousand dollar prize for the San Francisco-Hono-lulu flight.” t
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1927, Page 7
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