AVIATION.
ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN SERVICE. HINKLER'S LECTURE TO AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY. LONDON, December 6. Hinkler, lecturing under the auspices of the Royal Aeronautical Society, detailed the technicalities of the construction and manipulation of machines which could be used practicably on the Anglo-Australian service.
He said that the Avian, despite its not having been designed for journeying throughout the world, had proved the possibility of designing a machine ensuring equal safety ami greater comfort.
Referring to Burney’s predicted five clay airship journey to Australia, Hinkler pointed out that it meant a nonstop, and Iso meant attaining the maximum possibility therein, resembling the non-stop Transcontinental train in Australia, which engincering*lv wr.s possible, but commercially impracitc able “ Experience has convinced me of the practicability of a fourteen days Ang’o-Australian service with comfor: and safety, within a few years,” he concluded.
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Grey River Argus, 8 December 1928, Page 3
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