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SYDNEY TO LONDON FLIGHT. CAPTAIN HURLEY AT OODNADATTA. i:ted Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, Oct. 31. Captain Hurley landed in fine .style at Oodnadatta, South. Australia, ait 2.5 p.m. to-dav, South Australian time. He hopped off from Broken Hill ait six this morning. There was a strong head wind nearly all the distance. He passed over a considerable extent o.f desert pockmarked with straggling clumps of mulga bush, which Captain Hurley describes as a wilderness' of abysmal loneliness. The crew are aill well and the monoplane O.K. Interviewed at Broken Hill last night Captain Hurley explained that lie doe« not intend to take a serious view of delays in Australia as the time for the trip to England does not start until the monoplane leaves Wyndhani, in the north of Western Australia- He intends to ,siay -for a few hours in Wynd'haan to examine the. engine before crossing tile ocean to Andir in the 1 Dutch East Indies. He will then go on to Point Victoria, Burma.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 November 1928, Page 5
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