FLYING RECORD
FROM DARWIN TO LONDON SEMPHILL’S PILOT CONFIDENT (Australian Press Association.) ■ (Received this day at 1.35 p.m.) DARWIN, October 7. Piloted bv H. Wood, Lord Sompill’s Monospar plane arrived from Melbourne, having covered 2435 miles in 12 hours 55 minutes. Wood said he was confident he could keep hh promise to the crew that they would have lunch in London next Sunday. To do this, Wood must fly more than 1.2,700 mihs wilitlot relief at the controls, and break the record of 5 days 15 hours from Darwin to London, held by Cathcart Jones and KenWaller.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1936, Page 6
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