FLIGHT ROUND AUSTRALIA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 September 1924, Page 5

FLIGHT ROUND AUSTRALIA.

Colonel Brinsmead, Controller of Civil Aviation, left Melbourne on August 7, 1924, at 10.30 on a flight round Australia. He is accompanied by Captain Jones as pilot and Mr Buchanan as mechanic.

The D.H. 50 aeroplane, which is making the flight, underwent thorough preliminary tests during the past weeks.

It is expected that the flight will take one month, although no effort will be made to accomplish the trip in any set time.

Colonel Brinsmead will survey proposed air routes, and will study the operations of the air fleets already flying over the Charleville-Cloneurry route in Queensland, and the DerbyPerth route in Western Australia. Much valuable information will be gained as to the practicability of aerial services l in remote parts of the continent.

Careful preparations haye been made to ensure the success of this flight. The organisation of supplies of petrol, lubricating oil, and distilled water, to be available at all points along the route where stops are to be made, has already been carried out by the Vacuum Oil Company Pty., Ltd. Plume Aviation Motor Spirit and Gargoyle Mobiloil respectively for the aeroplane engine. ' The recent round-Australia flight by Wing-Commander Goble and FlightLieutenant Mclntyre has already given world-wide prominence to Australian aviation.

The start of the present flight is the beginning of another important pa'ge in the history of flying.