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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 April 1938, Page 7

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BROADBENT’S PROGRESS. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] DARWIN, April. 18, Broadbent, who is again attacking the Australia-England solo flight record, took off from Darwin at 3 a.m. to-day for Singapore. A message from Batavia states, that the airman passed over Sourabaya at 11 a.m. local time. Broadbent was reported to have, arrived at Singapore at 5.55 p.m. local time. SINGAPORE, April 18. Broadbent arrived at 10.35 a.m. (G.M.T.), and left at 7.37 p.m. GLIDING RECORDS. LONDON, April 18. Landing near Plymouth from Wiltshire after a flight of 122 miles, Christopher Nicholson, a London pilot, established a new British gliding distance record. Tho previous record was held by ,P. A. Wills, with a flight of 110 miles. MOSCOW, April 18. The Soviet flyer, Makarov, claims a new gliding record, remaining aloft for 19 hours 8 minutes in a twoseater machine carrying one passenger. ? ; ITALIANS CRASH. (Recd. April. 19, 11 a.m.) LONDON, April 18The Italian Cape fliers crashed near Tripoli. Two were injured. LONDON, April 18. Landing at Fowey (Cornwall), after al flight of 144 miles in six hours, a Londoner, J. S. Fox, broke the gliding record. ROME, April 18. The Italian fliers crashed near Zuara on the Libyan coast, after circling the aerodrome preparatory to landing. They were lifted up by a strong wind and then pancaked. All the occupants were injured, but it is believed, not seriously. The plane was, badly damaged an dis not expected to continue the flight.