INTREPID AERIAL SPORTSMAN.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 128, 2 June 1920, Page 5

INTREPID AERIAL SPORTSMAN.

I A PERILOUS FLIGHT.

[Pbess Assocution.]

iot+ralian and N.Z, Cable /VssooiwtiOD

(Received June 1, 5.5, p.m.) LONDON, May 31. Hincklcr,' the Australian, who is attempting a' flight'" to Australia in a Baby Avro, was debarred from competing for the £10,000 prize an p.; ■ Sopwith machine, on the ground that r his scheme, involved .too many risls;s v He liaS been connected:,with the Aexx> Works at Southhamptbn ipr': gome /time and had never-/-abandoned;. Ms ' intention: ,to attempt «the Australian flight,, lie has now # 'started ai a : sporting,; Venture, hoping to, be; the first maii to reach Australia, ...iix a ' single-seaiter aeroplane. . - i i Tl;e Baihy Ayro won the ) Bela.led , handica,p in tlie Aeriaji;^rby^ 1 She j liiis;a:.r;apge of/^-^lijes,and: .jflieS \ at, severity =;Ito/ eighty miles \ ari Hour,' using a Green engine >, of.! thirty-fire < horse-power, . . ' ; ■■■\.-, .! ; -Tho most' dafihg propbsitibn, is] tlie : 1 attempt to: ,cross, liifgie;:'stretch^ of ;\ i water fin such a;bus;mit H^iickler is': ■ a bit of a' sport tfnd Tjelieyes that* he will rfeaclj: Australia, eyenttiallyv;; -He , ;]ieft.'"VVlald6n; aer'd4romje r in 'excellent- ( weather.' ''' '' " , ;?••;;,- '. . \