CLOUSTON’S FLIGHT
DARWIN, Afarch 19. Flying-Officer A. E. Cloustou reached Darwin at 5.55 p.m. yesterday. His time from England was 7hr 35min outside Air (•- W. A. Scott’s record to Darwin. He said: ‘‘l am afraid Scott’s record has us beaten. Refuelling arrangements cost us valauble time along the route. ” After leaving Singapore, we ran into a blinding hailstorm and the stoneq just pelted down.” The aviators arrived at Blenheim on Sunday afternoon at 4.34. after having been 7 hours 5 min on the journey from Sydney. They left on the return journey to England at 9.30 o’clock this morning. BROADBENT FOUND SATE. A Quantas aeroplane found H. E. Broadbent, the Australian airman, on a beach sixteen miles north-north-wesc ot Waingapu, Batavia. The report was.“All well.”
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Kaikoura Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 23, 21 March 1938, Page 2
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